Instant When Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging…
— Maurice Wilkes
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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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It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in…
— Paulo Coelho
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No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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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
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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
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We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when…
— Dorothy Day
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We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do,…
— Mira Grant
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...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and…
— Per Petterson
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For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from,…
— Stephen King
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Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have…
— Paullina Simons
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It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when…
— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it…
— Walter Benjamin
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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…
— GK Chesterton
Who Wrote These Instant When Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Instant When Quotes as follows: