Brief Quotes

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.

You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing i could never have him.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a “Wirtschaftswunder,” which can be briefly translated as “The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one.”

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.