Instant Quotes - Page 17

• Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Fighting, Scum Of The Earth

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5064, NYU Press

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• Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Thinking Of You, Pain, Loneliness

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

  Roger Zelazny

  Lying, Names, Long

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• They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.

  Gao Xingjian

  Dream

  Gao Xingjian (2009). “Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories”, p.85, Zondervan

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• Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

  Nicholas Serota

  Art, Sight, Understanding

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• What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Player, Playing Games, Doe

  "Ryan C. Gordon and Michael Simms (3. Ryan C. Gordon - Part II)". Interview with Robin Heggelund Hansen, www.tek.no. March 10, 2009.

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• Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant profit," not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Running, Book, Mean

  "A simple, mildly incredulous philippic". nielsenhayden.com. April 7, 2010.

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• When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Forever, Going Away, Glimpse

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• As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

  Boy George

  Kids, Rivers, People

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting. It obviously is tough [to be a parent], but when you feel that love, and it's instant, and it's so cool, so fun. When your baby smiles at you or when you just hold your baby, it's a pretty awesome feeling.

  Clayton Kershaw

  Baby, Fun, Kids

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of Thrones' is a perfect example of that, or even a show like 'The Wire,' which isn't all about instant gratification it's about inviting someone into the long experience of television the way you'd be invited into a theater for two hours. So I think in that way, and the quality of writing in television is probably much better than most film writing.

  Bryan Singer

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Truth, Experience, Firsts

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• The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

  William James

  Memories, Fall, Mean

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.643, Courier Corporation

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• Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Faces, Opinion

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Blessed, Men

  "Past and Present". Book by Thomas Carlyle, April 1843.

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• Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

  Lauren Bacall

  Past, Dies

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• My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. I mean, we're so different [in the cast], some of us. Miles apart. [But] when I see anyone from those days, I tap into that instant love for them.

  Ted Danson

  Jobs, Mean, People

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Temptation, Age

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• One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.

  Jonathan Raban

  Drama, Fall, Eden

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Courage, Safe, Enough

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.140, Northwestern University Press

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• An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

  Storm Jameson

  Memories, Animal, Blood

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.50, A&C Black

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• The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.

  Merle Shain

  Dream, Falling In Love, Taken

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• Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

  Ruth Rendell

  Years, Civilization, Car

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• The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

  Edward Gibbon

  Brother, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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