Quotes of: Brief-moment Keyword

Anything which is just born, which has just come into existence, has no past behind it. Birth, in other words, is the condition of having no past. And likewise, anything which now dies, which has just ceased to be, has no future left in front of it. ...

No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis. (Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Arte poética

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osler

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.

Romeo and Juliet

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

Love Story

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Gene Fowler

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Omar Bongo

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

Mike DeWine

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

Marlin Fitzwater

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

William C. Bryant

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Stephen Hawking

Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!

Julia Roberts

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

Tom Jenkinson

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

George Saunders

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

James Cash Penney

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Jean Rostand

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

John Dryden

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Alfred Nobel

the light too brief to finish any work — the woman seeks to amplify the dark

Life

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

Alexis Denisof