He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something. — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out,… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable… — Johann Ludwig Tieck Copy Share Image
When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never… — Eva Braun Copy Share Image
Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough… — Mike Oldfield Copy Share Image
If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I… — Rebecca Lim Copy Share Image
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather. The team scored a touchdown. They showed the instant replay. He… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
The thing is, as an actor, I get bored a little bit. I love to act. And between action and cuts, when… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One… — William James Copy Share Image
Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.” — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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