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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
I had a few brief, brief interactions with Coach K. Mainly us beating them in the NCAA Tournament back in 2012.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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.
From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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.
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.
In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.
Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.
I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.
Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.
My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed.
My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.
I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.
Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
To me, it seems like both 'Brief Interviews' and 'The Office' deal with characters that see themselves differently than the world sees them.
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
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.
I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.
The older I get, the more I feel that's all we are: a big bunch of feelings and instincts all wrapped up in some brief encounter with intellect.
I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.
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.
We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.
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!
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.
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.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.