Quotes with immediate

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  • Tom Stoppard I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • June Jordan If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Pat Riley If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Bob Ney In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Brendan Behan Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Ernest Dimnet Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Barry Gibb Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Carol Burnett People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from Windex. Yes, I do windows.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Henry L. Doherty Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Jean Paul The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Ezra Pound The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bruce Jackson The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Billy Tauzin The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Allen Klein The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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