Quotes About Brief

Let's make hay while it lasts.

I think everything is temporary.

They heard each other only by accident, in brief pauses for breath, each of them howling their resentment and pain across the room like flaming spears that burned into dust before touching their target.

Many of the haiku poets gave their poems brief superscriptions that function like Ginsberg's titles to create a context.

The most effective way to capture attention is to use your enthusiasm to answer each question succinctly in a concise, brief manner. Never use more than 60 seconds on any answer.

Pierpont was, by nature, a laconic man.

For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. —JAMES 4:14

The officers shook hands, and the sniper gave a millimetric nod, which Reacher returned, equally briefly, which for two alleged snipers was effusive, and for a dogface and a jarhead meeting for the first time was practically like rolling around on the floor in an ecstatic bear hug.

sentences. A succinct and everyday exchange of information.

In the tall tales told by firelight there was always a brief and laconic conversation.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

THE nature-study lesson should be short and sharp and may vary from ten minutes to a half hour in length.

I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.

I find myself apologising for not being a proper actor. I never intended to be involved in the film industry and still do feel that, with the exception of a couple of brief skirmishes with the film industry.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

if truth is the end of life, happiness is a mode of it, to be cherished in it's brief and tremulous moment.

human existence de Selby has defined as 'a succession of static experiences each infinitely brief, a conception which he is thought to have arrived at from examining some old cinematographic films which belonged probably to his nephew

Usually, when I'm at a festival with a movie that I'm in, I'm in and out in 24 hours.

I am a temporary amusement.

much-anticipated, long-awaited epiphany is actually a brief, quiet, simple shift in perspective from the one who is looking for That, to the recognition that it is That which is looking.

Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.