Conciseness Brevity Quotes & Sayings

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. — Hosea Ballou

I like the fans' sound at night. Do you? It's like somebody big far away goes like: it'sOKit'sOKit'sOKit'sOK, over and over. From very far away. — David Foster Wallace

but he ate all of her food and drank every ounce of her Minute Maid fruit punch. It was way past time for her to leave. "No — Elle Wright

There were so many things I wasn't that I had difficulty defining myself, especially in relation to Elise, who was so many things. — Mary Miller

There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it. — Julie Anne Peters

He had no breath, no being, but in hers, she was his voice; he did not speak to her. But trembled on her words; She was his sight, For his eye followed hers, and saw hers, Which colored all his objects-he had crease to live within himself; She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts ... — Suzanne Enoch

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657) — Blaise Pascal

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans. — E. O. Wilson

... on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. — Louisa May Alcott

I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've got to translate it into a policy that leads to action. — Hillary Clinton

Live spiritually and you'll be fine. — A.D. Posey

The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up
ever
trusting our fellow citizens to join with us in our determined pursuit of a living democracy? — Terry Tempest Williams