Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not,… — Meir Kahane
People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the… — Daniel Kahneman
Acting is very immediate. — Val Kilmer
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country… — Allen Klein
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. — Annie Leibovitz
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. — Joshua L. Liebman
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good,… — John Stuart Mill
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' — Wilson Mizner
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. — Robert Morgan
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive… — Chuck Palahniuk
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction… — Pope John Paul II
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. — Max Planck
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are… — Pat Riley
The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. — Ray Romano
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. — Marquis de Sade
Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity. — Marilyn vos Savant
Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are… — Howard Schultz
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy,… — Amartya Sen
Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My… — Ayrton Senna
Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures… — Peter Singer
Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices… — Peter Singer
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a… — Thomas Sowell

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