Instant Quotes

970 Instant quotes by 780 unique authors

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing. — Wanda Sykes
Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and… — James E. Faust
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow. — Tomas Transtromer
In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is… — Derek Rydall
Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities, — Sonja Lyubomirsky
Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “void”. Are a bit whorish in that the instant… — Nicole McKay
What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant… — David Wilcock
Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows,… — Peter York
Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear,… — Guy Kawasaki
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever… — William Butler Yeats
God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special… — Wesley L Duewel
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear… — David Wolpe
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world… — Pope John Paul II
If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The voice you loved… — Herbert Lockyer
The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly… — Frederick Lenz
The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma. — Frederick Lenz
Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their… — William Shakespeare
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer… — Jeanette Winterson
The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours… — Leonardo da Vinci
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours. — George Santayana
There is no nature in an instant. — Alfred North Whitehead
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second… — Robin Morgan
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds… — Homer

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