Instant Quotes - Page 14

• To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

  Timothy Keller

  Slavery, Process, Persons

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• I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Judging, Deeds, Judgment

  MAURICE MAETERLINCK (1917). “A MIRACLE OF SAINT ANTONY AND FIVE OTHER PLAYS”

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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 incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Men, Happy Marriage

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

  John Stuart Mill

  Self, Joy, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (2007). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

  William Francis Henry King

  Writing, Community, Mind

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• Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

  Eugene Field

  Ideas, Birth, Pendulums

  "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.

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• If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Prayer, Work, Simple

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• If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• There are no instant solutions.

  James Callaghan

  Solutions

  James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins

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• I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

  Elmer Bernstein

  People, Made, Found

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• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Mean, Adults

  "Clowes Speak" by Tad Friend, July 30, 2001.

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• Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

  Kevin Conroy

  Parent, Identity, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

  Jack Dorsey

  Reality, Cities, Long

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• There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

  Jim Dale

  Talent, Stardom, Spray

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

  Paula Deen

  Long, Cooking, Grit

  Paula Deen (2011). “Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Instant Karma is going to get you.

  John Lennon

  Karma, Religious, Religion

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• We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

  Mike Conaway

  Real, Coffee, World

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• The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Communication, Community, Together

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• I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

  Ryan McGinley

  Photography, Independent, Mind

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• I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.

  David Nail

  Thinking, People, Feedback

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• Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

  Emeli Sande

  Song

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• Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Digital, Film, Finesse

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• Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  World, Fame, Decadence

  "Jesse Metcalfe's Addiction Battle". More! Magazine Interview, www.contactmusic.com. February 02, 2013.

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• When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

  Ella Maillart

  Looks, Literature, Certain

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• Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.

  Jason Landry

  Opportunity, Connections, Sometimes

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