Instant Quotes - Page 23

• In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

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• We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Thinking, Gun, Criminals

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.

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• In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it.

  Glenn Turner

  Fun, Coffee, Believe

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• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  Questlove

  Giving Up, Years, Circles

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• We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.

  Jim Trelease

  Coffee, Adults, Pudding

  Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.54, Penguin

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• I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.

  Christopher Buckley

  Queens, Kings, Prayer

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• Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

  Robyn Davidson

  Real, Eye, Would Be

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• The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Reality, Recognition, Intuitive

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• That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Disappear, Feels, Permanent

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

  Rod Parsley

  Pleasure, Accepting, Appeals

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• Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

  John Thorn

  Instant Replay, Replay

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• Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

  Gao Xingjian

  Reality, Perception, Persons

  Gao Xingjian (2010). “Soul Mountain”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Children, Appreciate, Approval

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

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• The keen spirit
  Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
  Start into instant action, and at once
  Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  Hannah More

  Spirit, Action, Resolve

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.338

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• Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face.

  Tana French

  Heart, Years, Faces

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• The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Character, Example, Pudding

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• There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

  Anant Agarwal

  Feedback, Huge, Values

  "Essay-Grading Software Offers Professors a Break". Interview, www.nytimes.com. April 4, 2013.

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• If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

  Bryn Terfel

  Song, Use, Produce

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• If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.

  Rebecca Lim

  Morning, Moving, Ties

  "Book Talk: Exiled angel on journey back to her past". Interview with Elaine Lies, www.reuters.com. December 8, 2010.

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• The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

  Thomas Eakins

  Powerful, Tools, Construction

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• Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

  Jason Collins

  Why Not

  "NBA center Jason Collins becomes first openly gay player in major US sports" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2013.

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• The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Harvest, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.220, David R. Godine Publisher

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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 think the slowness of exchange is over, and the idea of waiting for a response - that's gone. People don't want to wait. It's all this instantaneity. That's fine. But it also makes writing different, if you're writing for an instant exchange compared with being able to have time for more reflection.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Reflection, Thinking

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

  Plutarch

  Elude, Offers, Senses

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