Immediately Quotes
1460 Immediately quotes by 1130 unique authors
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Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately…
— Doug Henning
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Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt…
— Daniel Kahneman
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I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain,…
— John Coltrane
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What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use…
— Jacques Audiard
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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be…
— John Keats
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Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and disposition of almost…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are…
— Lewis Black
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The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath…
— Huey Newton
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
— William H. Gass
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Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
— Fredrik Bajer
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When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you…
— Adam Thirlwell
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George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.
— Conan O'Brien
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The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote.…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed…
— Andrew Weil
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When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is…
— George Washington
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There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at…
— Washington Irving
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... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a…
— Eric Clapton
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I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that…
— Byron Katie
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A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
— Paul Gauguin
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Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
— Herbert Croly
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As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command…
— Jefferson Davis
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A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with…
— Eustace Mullins
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