Quotes of: Brief-moment Keyword

Every moment that we live our life, we live for the moment and then the moment dies.

Debasish Mridha

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.

Call of the Herald

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

The Cannibal Within

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

Charles Kennedy

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

11/22/63

Lord, she really hoped that was his penis and that Greek gods didn’t pad their briefs.

Sweet Hell

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

In Tuscany

We came from nothing, we'll leave with nothing; might as well make the most of the brief somethingness in between

M. James Airey

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

Stephen Phillips

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

David Letterman

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Paul Ricoeur

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

John Malkovich

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Mordecai Richler

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

Must it all be either less or more, Either plain or grand? Is it always 'or'? Is it never 'and'? That's what woods are for: For those moments in the woods... Oh, if life were made of moments, Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only momen...

Into the Woods

Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat. Everything moves towards the end, when the outcome will be known. Poems, regardless of any outcome, cross the ...

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the sayi...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

It’s all short, sweet and simple, but it’s all a moment’s worth.

A Moment's Worth

Those moments you are most joyful, those moments are most blissful, and those moments of life are most useful.

Debasish Mridha

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

In every lifetime there is a moment. A moment so clear, so profoundly unique; that it stands out against billions of other moments. When you find a moment such as this one, you pay extra close attention to it. It will usually contain something that d...

Kim Cormack