Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our… — Claude Debussy
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize… — Maria Montessori
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out… — Ujjwal Nikam
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years… — E F Schumacher
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one. — Ralph Raico
We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action — Unknown Author
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not… — George Washington
I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get… — Kristi Yamaguchi
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's… — Milton Friedman
It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through… — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you,… — John F. Kerry
The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your… — Stephen Covey
All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy. — Michael Ruppert
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have… — Kenneth E. Boulding
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family.… — Isabella Rossellini
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its… — James Madison
But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well… — James Madison
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself. — Mahatma Gandhi
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network… — Colin Ward
Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its… — Rabindranath Tagore
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. — Albert Einstein

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