Quotes with instant

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  • Thomas Carlyle In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Carol Bellamy Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Joan Didion Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Berkeley Breathed My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Alvin Adams My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Camille Paglia No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Hoff Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ''I,'' under another form, continues the task of existence.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Dean Koontz The present is just an instant between past and future
    Dean Koontz
    American writer and screenwriter (born 1945) (1945 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Anais Nin There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Meister Eckhart There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Bria Skonberg There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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