Instant Quotes - Page 24

• When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Light, Mind

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• I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather with the pen of a journalist we must attempt to record a momentary phase of current thought, which may at any instant change with kaleidoscopic abruptness.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Moving, Science, Thinking

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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 exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

  Meister Eckhart

  Yesterday, Tomorrow

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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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• Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

  Georges Cuvier

  Country, Animal, Events

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• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  Ice Cube

  Careers, People, Gone

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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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• It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

  Hope Davis

  Character, Negative, World

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

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• [Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Taken, Science, Space

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• Instant Karma is going to get you.

  John Lennon

  Karma, Religious, Religion

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• Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, Games, Looks

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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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• Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Perfect, Lasts, Taste

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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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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• Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Dream, Humanity, Needs

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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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• 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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• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  Wanda Sykes

  People, Laughing, Rewards

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• In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can't force the farm to produce a harvest, you can't force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready.

  Derek Rydall

  Age, Riches, Want

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• Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Exercise, May, Wells

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.204, Penguin

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• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  David Wilcock

  Healing, Breathing, Everyday

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• Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

  Peter York

  Jobs, Keys, Employment

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