Top 1114 Brief Quotes & Sayings

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

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.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.

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

I am a boxer-brief man.

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

Brief life is here our portion.

I will be sof brief, I have already finished.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

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.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Life really is very brief.

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

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

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

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.

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

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.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

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.

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.

'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.

A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and maybe more powerfully. I think that's true in a lot of cases, most long-term relationships compared to some of the briefer ones - the intensity of those brief ones that end, I think a short story is kind of like that. There's a certain level of intensity that I think is different.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Life is brief but love is LONG .

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

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

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

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.

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

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

Be clear, be brief, be human.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

If you would be pungent, be brief.

Anger is brief madness

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

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.

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.

I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more efficient creative writer and editor. In the end, lawyers need to tell compelling stories when they write a brief or other legal argument. A successful lawyer understands that the judge is merely a person who is going to read that brief, which should articulate a compelling reason for the judge to rule in that lawyer's favor. In other words, a legal advocate needs to get the judge to care. That's not dissimilar to what a creative writer does.

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