Instant Quotes

970 Instant quotes by 780 unique authors

Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills… — Vikas Swarup
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak… — Unknown Author
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen… — William Faulkner
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to… — M. Scott Peck
The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides… — Gaston Bachelard
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the… — J. D. Sedding
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become… — Marsilio Ficino
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even… — Harry S. Truman
It is 100% easier not to do things than to do them, and so much fun not to do them - especially when you were… — John Mulaney
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming
Perhaps this very instant is your time. — Louise Bogan
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed… — Edward Snowden
That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We… — Pope Benedict XVI
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems. — Lucian Freud
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall… — Peter Kropotkin
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and… — Edvard Munch
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. — Nikola Tesla
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together,… — Peter Singer
History is the gradual instant — Anne Michaels

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