Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther. — Paul Biya
Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's… — Pauline Collins
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them… — Georges Cuvier
I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be… — John Corbett
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls… — Lynne Cheney
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually… — William A. Dembski
We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the… — Cedric the Entertainer
Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you… — Daniel Gillies
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and… — Marc Garneau
New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love… — Justin Townes Earle
I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of… — Francis Bacon
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit,… — Mary Ann Glendon
Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on… — Nicholas Hoult
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a… — Carly Rae Jepsen
It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's… — Fran Kranz
Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a… — Caroline Knapp
The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began,… — Kelly Miller
There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds… — Daniel Dae Kim
My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate. — George W. Bush
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming… — Thomas Jefferson
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class,… — Margaret Sanger
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures… — Charlie Pierce
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives… — Steven Pressfield
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate… — Warren G. Harding

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