Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I… — Amos Oz
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it. — Kay Ryan
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power,… — Frank Knight
If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be… — Samuel Johnson
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness… — Gerald May
There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is. — Sri Chinmoy
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of… — Samuel Johnson
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking… — Elizabeth Drew
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France… — Nicholas D. Kristof
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races… — Abraham Lincoln
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not… — Dalai Lama
We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth… — Michel Foucault
The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked. — Unknown Author
Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is,… — Unknown Author
I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person. — Lee L Jampolsky
The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is… — Jane Heller
[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial… — Peter Senge
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife… — Thomas Lovejoy
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. — Madame de Stael
It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history -… — Richard M. Nixon
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of… — Edward Gibbon

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