Immediately Quotes
1460 quotes by 1157 authors
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And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
— Woody Allen
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The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the…
— Andre Breton
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the…
— Oscar Wilde
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She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know…
— Neil Gaiman
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She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and…
— Philip Larkin
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When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately…
— James Gleick
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I…
— Eddie Izzard
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But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego…
— Jack London
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The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger…
— Janet Evanovich
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Oh!†said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say…
— Jane Austen
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Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted…
— John Waters
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There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you…
— Douglas Adams
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You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder…
— Ralph Nader
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Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this…
— David Hume
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If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.
— Daniel Handler
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Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
— Jacques Derrida
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