Sentences with phrase «life is brief»

Paintings with these might also have skulls, hourglasses, clocks, and candles, warning the viewer that life is brief.

More glimmer of gold Look to the Ouroboros Its beginnings and ends Sacred scared warrior Shed your skin again Onward and all ways You fight for the grave Have great faith in yourself Cosmic paths are paved So, no for long my forlorn For the fight in this life is brief They sheathe each end With your spirit, never to sleep The exhibits can be seen on the shows website here.

It reminds us of the impractical veracity that love truly is a many splendored thing, and life is brief!»

In the Napa River Inn courtyard, Riverbend Plaza, behind Napa General Store, appears Alan Shepp's masterpiece called Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Life is Brief But Art Endures).

A Critical Analysis of the Writing Style of Isabel AllendeMemory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we can not gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously — Isabel Allende Isabel Allende asked, «How can one not Continue reading

Life is brief and I have so many things that I want to do and feel.

Juice is a mainstay for many refrigerators, but its freshness is momentary, and its shelf life is brief.

Each successive omnispatial moment in the divine life is a brief, particular slice of time.

We tiny men are indignant if only one of us dies or is killed, although of necessity our life is brief, when in one little space so many corpses of cities lie thrown down?»

Our lives are brief, and there's no time to waste.

His life was brief, but rich in love; see the comments from Mathias's grandmother Cheryl and mom Kindy.

We are the progeny of people who hunted and gathered, whose lives were brief and whose greatest threat was a man with a stick.

Not exact matches

Dull training sessions, sermons, and briefings are an unavoidable part of life.

She expressed a vision for life that involved community, one that reminded me of a different project we were hiring for: our podcast Biden's Briefing.

The complete post is well worth reading in full if you're feeling a little at sea at your new school (or if you're hoping to offer some guidance to the college student in your life), but here are a few of his tips in brief in get you started.

Our latest Sustainly Trend Briefing examines how some of the world's biggest companies are collaborating with tech start ups, municipal governments and community organizations working to create Smart City services and experiences, and how these innovations can deliver more sustainable living and business.

Since live tweeting can be a bit of a rapid fire experience, it's okay to keep your responses brief, but it's important that you respond.

But keep in mind, he was engaged in a live conversation where his comments were supposed to be brief.

Many who, for a brief season, had emerged from the humbler walks of life, were cast back into their original obscurity.

The military, like any large organization can be very similar to a corporate environment once you start moving up in the ranks and my life has become one filled with meetings, briefings, paperwork and dealing with employee issues non-stop.

But I think the stock market reaction may be brief and short lived.

There are, however, some brief periods in a person's life when old routines fall apart and buying habits are suddenly in flux.

«The plan is to develop, achieve and sustain a well - co-ordinated and efficient system that assures homelessness is rare, brief or non-occurring and no veteran is forced to live on the street.»

I think it's important to have a brief standup meeting with all the key content creators each week; just because there is an accessible calendar doesn't mean everyone is living and dying by it like the person who maintains it.

The typical gold bug's life is one of grievous woe, unending complaint, violent gnashing of teeth and dreadful wails of despair, interspersed with brief moments of glory.

Fun facts: Susan was a flight attendant for a brief time, lived in the Caribbean for a year and back packed around the world for 14 months.

All the more reason, then, to be grateful to two Catholic University professors for having assembled a florilegium of brief texts from a century of Catholic social doctrine, and then artfully arranging them as answers to the real - world questions asked by business people trying to live their professional lives vocationally.

So meaning would be created» and thus was born (with the help of popular historian Theodore White and Life magazine) the familiar imagery of the Kennedy White House as an Arthurian Camelot, a «brief shining moment» that must «never be forgot» (as Alan Jay Lerner's lyrics, from the contemporary Broadway musical, put it).

About fifty million years ago, a brief moment in the long history of life on earth, geological evidence indicates, CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now.

After a brief explanation about what this life in Christ, this «salvation» entails (Ephesians 2:6 - 7), Paul picks back up the «by grace you have been saved» statement in Ephesians 2:8 - 9 and explains it further.

His criticism was brief, «So that's how much His life for yours, means to you?»

Biblical scholar Eduard Schweitzer has said that «for a brief moment the curtain... is drawn aside,» and the disciples are «allowed to see in Jesus something of the glory of God and [God's] kingdom, of that other life to which human eyes are otherwise blind.»

We may, if you wish, allow that he was sometimes imperfectly reported, and it is certain that we have a very inadequate «coverage» of the most important life the world has ever seen, but the more one studies these brief and incomplete records, the more unthinkable it becomes that they should be mere human fabrications.

They grasped that the oneness of the Church was based on this confession, and they were persuaded that God had ordained that «every tongue confess that Jesus the Christ is Lord,» In brief, they saw Jesus the Christ as lord of their lives, as Lord of the Church, as Lord of All.

What value changes do we need to make in response to the new awareness of how brief, fragile and precious our life together is?

Since this topic is not theory to me but life experience, my brief synopsis would be «of course Mass Evangelism» is effective.

A theologian of Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles sets forth in brief compass an overview of conflicts within American Catholicism, advocating a «common ground» approach to living together in a Church that is, he believes, stronger and healthier than such conflicts may suggest.

In its brief history the Jewish state has more than once had to make life - or - death decisions, and the Oslo agreement, whether necessary or not, is one of them.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

I need hardly say that this is no brief for the traditional sanctimonious patter of the churches that have retreated into their piety, or for the mediocre, musty, introverted, and highly moral lives of many Christians, who are impervious to the violence of love and the power of the Spirit.

In his brief introduction Denis McBride states that his hope is «that these reflections will be a real support to you in praying the Rosary and help you in some small way, to grow personally closer to the loving lives of Jesus and Mary.»

The man who murdered or lied for the brief moment that encompassed his life is no more.

Then I was invited to visit a monastery of Camaldolese Benedictine monks who live by the Rule of St. Benedict and the Brief Rule of St. Romuald, a tenth - century Italian known as the «father of reasonable hermits.»

But all will agree in recognizing that early in the first century in Palestine there lived a man «mighty in word and deed» whose brief career, for the most part hidden from us, was an event of incalculable magnitude, not only because of its effects but because of what it was.

Not only are the meager materials in the Gospels which deal with his earlier life obviously legendary and late, but even within the brief compass of his public career no certainty is possible as to the order of events and little as to the historicity of a great many particular events.

And, of all the diverting tales that can be told about Kierkegaard, none is really any more terrible than that: If he was ever cruel, it was principally to himself, and he managed to live out his brief but prolific philosophical career without once (if you can credit it) feeling the need to heave an elderly charwoman into a stairwell.

Why should not Life, too, be mobile only in great masses, or though the slow action of time, or in brief stages?

Caught up in the messiness of life, in search of a brief flourishing before we are replaced by others essentially like us, we are most ourselves when united in a bond of friendship.

This brief article will be my last on the subject — at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life's blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America's middle - class women.

If there really is no purpose to this life other than what brief time we have here, there is no reason to hold to society's laws or social conventions.