Blink Of An Eye Quotes - Page 2

• You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.

  Bruce Willis

  Life Is Short, Eye, Past

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• Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.

  Shan Sa

  Pain, Sleep, Eye

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• "When we contemplate the duration of the universe, we see it limited to the present moment, which is nothing more but the point which separates two infinities of time. The past and the future are as meaningless as if they did not exist. Is anyone more misguided than the man who barters an eternal future for a moment which passes quicker than the blink of an eye?."

  Ibn Hazm

  Positive, Eye, Men

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• We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something.

  Chaim Potok

  Pain, Mean, Eye

  "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, (p. 217), 1967.

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• A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Given, Chosen

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

  Og Mandino

  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.

  Russell Targ

  Teacher, Writing, Heart

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.15, New World Library

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• But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Eye, Awareness, Blink

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

  Alex Garland

  Eye, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Sergeant Farrell". "28 Days Later...", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Grateful, Eye, Artist

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

  Nastia Liukin

  Dream, Cheer, Team

  Interview With Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

  Blue Balliett

  Eye, Years, People

  Blue Balliett (2012). “The Calder Game”, p.205, Scholastic Inc.

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• In this world we've created
  Where this place that we live
  in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in
  Love lights the world
  Unites the love that's for eternity.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Music, Eye, Light

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• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

  George Will

  Eye, Airports, Imagination

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• This is the last time I'm asking you this,
  Put my name at the top of your list,
  This is the last time I'm asking you why,
  You break my heart in the blink of an eye.

  Taylor Swift

  Heart, Eye, Names

  "Song: 'The Last Time'". 2012.

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• You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.

  Sy Safransky

  Writing, Heart, Eye

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• Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

  Adi Shankara

  Giving Up, Eye, People

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• A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Quality, May

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Eye, Half, Ramadan

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Jul 12, 2014

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• I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

  Frank Iero

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Source: indientry.com

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• I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.

  Nancy Knowlton

  Ocean, Eye, Scary

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• There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas... The upper portion of Europe will be changed in the blink of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.

  Edgar Cayce

  Eye, Japan, Europe

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• Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Eye, Technology

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• Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Eye, Opportunity

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