Instant Quotes - Page 27

• The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Trying, Locks, Frozen

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

  Seth Godin

  Understanding, Important, Instant Replay

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• They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

  Jim Perrin

  Climbing, Solitary Life, Mind

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• Rock & roll is instant coffee.

  Bob Geldof

  Coffee, Rocks, Instant Coffee

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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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• A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

  Aesop

  Hands, Tree, Needs

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.180, Aesop

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• James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

  Montgomery Clift

  Profound, Dean, Heard

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Spring, Debt, Causes

  "The Creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

  Jeff Cooper

  Serious, Self Defense, Harm

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Math, Mathematics

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

  Saul Williams

  Powerful, People, Parent

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head

  John Lennon

  Karma

  Song: Instant Karma!

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• Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

  James Huneker

  Art, Philosophy, History

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

  John de Ruiter

  Able, Openness, Softness

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• Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Giving, Answers

  Matthew Henry, Noah Webster (2018). “Matthew Henry Study Bible - Revised King James Version”, p.1505, Importantia Publishing

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• Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Spiritual, Blessing, Names

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• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  Patricia Richardson

  Decision, Parent, Balance

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

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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Scripts, Tvs

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

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• Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Lonely, Falling In Love, Love Is

  "These things I know" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

  Tom Jones

  Comfort, Littles, Saws

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• You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

  Manu Joseph

  News, Kind, Acquire

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• Why is the word yes so brief?
  it should be
  the longest,
  the hardest,
  so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
  so that upon reflection you could stop
  in the middle of saying it.

  Vera Pavlova

  Reflection, Middle, Should

  Vera Pavlova, “Why is the word YES so brief?”

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• No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Judging, Anxiety

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• What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Writing, Talking, People

  Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, thestake.org. January 30, 2014.

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