Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it… — Martha Gellhorn
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to… — Henry Miller
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly… — C.S. Lewis
God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take… — Joe Hill
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care… — Samuel Johnson
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't… — Bill Gates
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,… — Martin Amis
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All… — Caleb Carr
I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was… — Charles Bukowski
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship. — Rollo May
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way… — Paul Brunton
Lewis obediently stared at her, and Kira tried to make her voice sound confident. “You don’t feel anything. You’re not afraid.” “I am,” came Vlad’s… — Jeaniene Frost
I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate,… — Ray Bradbury
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action… — Dalai Lama
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting… — Alfred North Whitehead
You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear… — Margaret Atwood
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries… — Alain de Botton
All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots… — Suzanne Collins
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and… — William Stafford
The guy I'd felt such an immediate and deep connection to I'd thought that just maybe there really were such things as soul mates, and… — P. C. Cast
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals… — Noam Chomsky
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures. — Walter Mosley
If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain… — Robin Hobb
The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am… — Suzanne Collins
My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between… — Augusten Burroughs

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