Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders
I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the… — Judd Apatow
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and… — Timothy Geithner
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. — James Goldsmith
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. — Stephen Jay Gould
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. — Ulysses S. Grant
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that… — Jefferson Davis
I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'?… — Paula Deen
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet
In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the… — Roger Ebert
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. — Arthur Erickson
I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us… — Paul Feig
I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional,… — Renee Fleming
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. — Alexander Hamilton
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political… — Vaclav Havel
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in… — Henry Hazlitt
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. — David Hume
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. — Kazuo Ishiguro
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. — William James
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. — Thomas Jefferson
Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate. — Joan Jett
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. — Leon Kass

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