Instant Quotes

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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning… — M. John Harrison
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access… — Marc Andreessen
We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can… — Lionel Terray
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point… — Gangaji
There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of… — Adi Da
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… — Siri Hustvedt
There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to… — Julian Barbour
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away.… — E. O. Wilson
Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head.… — Rudyard Kipling
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's… — Bill Parcells
Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that… — Mary Karr
Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets… — Tim Winton
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is… — Noy Holland
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost… — L. Ron Hubbard
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry â€˜foulâ€™ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy,… — Donald Berwick
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: â€œI am a Country memberâ€. I… — Gough Whitlam
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. — Murray Rothbard
Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

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