Briefness Or Conciseness Quotes

#1. By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from Him
Thou who has loved him more than Thyself! Respecting him less, Thou wouldst have asked less of him. That would have been more like love, for his burden would have been lighter.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

Douglas Rushkoff

#3. [Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4. I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Bailee Madison

#5. Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.

Peter Davis

#6. When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time.

Pat Ament

#7. raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives

Fannie Flagg

#8. I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

Eric Stoltz

#9. I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.

Lewis Black

#10. Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

Franz Bardon

#11. My dad loves babies. He's really good with them and is a big family man.

Jade Jagger

#12. Sometimes sharing a problem doesn't make it easier to carry

Rick Riordan

#13. Pain
Waves are the sea's white daughters,
And raindrops the children of rain,
But why for my shimmering body
Have I a mother like Pain?
Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam
The world is brimming with beauty,
But I must stay at home.

Sara Teasdale

#14. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

Jimmy Carter

#15. It is true that I do not wear shoes as the host of 'Bunk.' I want 'Bunk' to feel like there's a slight possibility that a confident homeless man just wondered into the studio and started hosting a game show.

Kurt Braunohler