Brevis Quotes & Sayings

She'd seen them them all before, those faces. She knew them all, knew the sound of their voices, sounds mired in human emotions, sounds clear and pure with thought, and sounds wavering in that chasm between the two. Is this, she wondered, my legacy? And one day I'll be just one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder. — Steven Erikson

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] — Horace

The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.] — Sallust

Somebody always wants more. — Tammara Webber

I will have both of you," he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be. — Chloe Neill

For one moment I had a cold feeling he was watching. Over the arm of the couch, I caught a glimpse of his face staring back at me through the dark beyond the window - where just a few minutes earlier I had been crouching. A switch of perception, and I was out on the fire escape again, watching a man and a woman inside, making love on the couch. ... I thought to myself, go ahead, you poor bastard - watch. I don't give a damn anymore. — Daniel Keyes

VITA BREVIS
A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong. — Piet Hein

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
(Whatever advice you give, be brief.) — Horace

Educate your mind,
knowledge is power.
Guard your heart,
life springs from it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way. — Astro Teller

There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant. — Craig De Ruisseau

In both her sacramental life and in her proclamation of the Word, the Church constitutes a distinctive subject whose memory preserves the seemingly past word and action of Jesus as a present reality. — Pope Benedict XVI

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. — Oliver Goldsmith