Instantaneous Quotes

• Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Process, Daily Motivation

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Oct 02, 2012

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• The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Art, Understanding, Generations

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• The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

  Audre Lorde

  Literature, Belief, Solutions

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• Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

  Bill Watterson

  Learning, Ignorance, Waste

  "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1992.

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• An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

  Leon Kass

  Idaho, Offering, Kind

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• I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

  Anthony Doerr

  Rejection, Lucky, Gone

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cities, World, Revolution

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.85, Verso

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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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• There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

  Andy Gibb

  People, Together, Sitting

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• Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Assembly, Turns, Depends

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• A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

  Clement Greenberg

  Nature, Eye, Views

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.201, Beacon Press

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• Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Character, Angel, Miracle

  Ship of Fools pt. 3 (1962)

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• Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

  Clifford Stoll

  Communication, Science, Technology

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Morning, Mean, Opportunity

  Quoted in E. A. de Las Cases, Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) (entry for 4 - 5 Dec. 1815)

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• They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

  Miki Dora

  Life, Time, Choices

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• Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving, Joy, Sin

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• I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

  Clarice Lispector

  World

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• Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Memories, Heart

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

  Helen Keller

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Fun, Powerful, Writing

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• We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.

  Tatiana Maslany

  World, Months, Response

  Source: collider.com

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• Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat, Breathing, Fur

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• With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.

  Brad Furman

  Vegas, Gambling, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Breathing, Ordinary, Jazz

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.17, Penguin

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• Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Law, Ongoing

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