Instant Quotes

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

I want it all and I want it now.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

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

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.