Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the… — Stefan Zweig
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure… — Derrick Bell
A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will… — Lauren DeStefano
She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to… — Anna Godbersen
This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that… — Johnny Cash
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life… — Yann Martel
The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel… — Jorge Luis Borges
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role… — Haruki Murakami
Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no… — Ian Mcewan
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling… — Marian Keyes
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed… — Tara Brach
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a… — Gustave Flaubert
See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which. — Sarah Dessen
When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by… — C.S. Lewis
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into… — Charles de Lint
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important… — David Foster Wallace
My name is Tobias Eaton," Tobias says. "I don't think you want to push me off this train." The effect of the name on the… — Veronica Roth
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing… — Alan Watts
God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it. — Melina Marchetta
My regret was immediate and permanent and useless. — John Green
Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The… — Sri Chinmoy

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