Instant Quotes

970 Instant quotes by 780 unique authors

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully? — Jason Collins
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying,… — Charles Lindbergh
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. — Timothy Keller
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others? — Maurice Maeterlinck
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. — Berkeley Breathed
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every… — Amanda Lindhout
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses. — Plutarch
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all… — Loren Eiseley
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered,… — Natalia Ginzburg
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which… — John Stuart Mill
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or… — William Francis Henry King
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. — William Carlos Williams
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. — Eugene Field
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some… — Ryan McGinley
I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did. — David Nail
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. — Oscar Niemeyer
Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant. — Emeli Sande
Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and… — Graeme Le Saux
Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius
Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that? — Carol Vorderman
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. — Jesse Metcalfe
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see. — Ella Maillart
I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been… — Rebecca Wells

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