Instant Quotes - Page 26

• Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.

  Norman Doidge

  Life, Luxury, Soul

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• I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Father, Decision

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2004). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beer, Thinking, Earthquakes

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Aes Triplex'.

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• Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Wise, Brave

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

  Ezra Pound

  Emotional, Intellectual, Lifetime

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• It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lying, Speech

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

  Donald Barthelme

  Dripping, Instant Gratification, Seasons

  "The Bed". "Flying to America: 45 More Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 2007.

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• A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.

  Theodore Roethke

  Heart, Fire, Lakes

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.

  Billy Joel

  Wall, Home, Long

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Nov 08, 2013

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• 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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• Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

  Michael Chabon

  Adventure, Eye, Land

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Maps and Legends”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

  David Gemmell

  Hurt, Stranger, Easier

  David Gemmell (2011). “The King Beyond The Gate”, p.20, Hachette UK

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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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• In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths of the hypercosmical past and the hypercosmical future also, yet coexistent in eternity, lay cosmos beyond cosmos.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Eye, Past

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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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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• Koolaid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes - goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish - very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them.

  Lenny Bruce

  Cake, Fruit Salad, White

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• Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Age, Satisfaction

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

  Susan Sontag

  Photograph, Maxims, Subjects

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.22, Macmillan

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• We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Air, Doors

  Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990.

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• Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Two, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.

  Ken McCarthy

  People, Want, Pages

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• From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

  Epictetus

  Needs, Disappointing, Vow

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• Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Want, Steps

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• Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Soul, Intuition

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.211, Paramahansa Yogananda

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