Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. — Sidney Altman
When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have… — Robin Leach
And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate. — Graeme Murphy
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only… — Sam Savage
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using… — Steven Johnson
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.… — Robert Motherwell
To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government. — Kim Dae-jung
So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of… — Kim Dae-jung
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic… — Paul Virilio
Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide… — Unknown Author
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or… — David Hume
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to very severe dependence.… — Angela Merkel
The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate. — David Lloyd-Jones
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of… — Joe Slovo
Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. — Herbert Read
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God. — R. S. Thomas
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms… — Unknown Author
The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to… — Carl Jung
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge… — George Eliot

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