Instant When Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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: