Instant Quotes
970 Instant quotes by 780 unique authors
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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the…
— Gerard De Nerval
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You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking…
— Ban Ki-moon
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To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
— Taisen Deshimaru
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While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex…
— Julia Cameron
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
— Bill Bryson
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.
— John Green
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Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable,…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of…
— Pope Pius IX
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Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your…
— Jacques Prevert
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw,…
— Charles Dickens
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In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.
— John Mulaney
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How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?
— Susan Abulhawa
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When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...
— Jennifer O'Neill
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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
— Thomas Carlyle
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My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes…
— Gregory Crewdson
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I scored a touchdown on the first reception I made in the NFL and spiked the ball. The instant I did, I felt horrible and…
— Ozzie Newsome
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I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know?…
— Chris Daughtry
Who Wrote These Instant Quotes
780 authors contributed a total of 970 Instant Quotes, led by these top contributors: