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Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
I think I've got a track record and an experience brief that I'll put up against anybody's.
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.
The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
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?
I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.
Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
They'll kill you for doing this," I breathed in a brief moment when his lips traveled to my neck. "If I don't I'll die anyways.
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?
Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.
Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.
Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.
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.
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant.
I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.
It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
