Top 1200 Brief Life Quotes & Sayings

No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by whom, when ordained, what to, and by whom-give a brief sketch of all his missions and of all his official acts and the dealings of God with him. Then if he were to die and the historians wished to publish his history, they would have something to go by.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.

Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

Brief life is here our portion.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief .

I had a few brief, brief interactions with Coach K. Mainly us beating them in the NCAA Tournament back in 2012.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.

Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Life really is very brief.

Life is brief but love is LONG .

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.

My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious in the barren dusk; My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.

My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.

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.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

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

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it.