Instant Quotes

Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

Fashion is an instant language.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

I'm an instant responder. Somebody told me I'm a living Twitter. I'm quick to respond and quick to fill air.

People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

Life can change in an instant.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

I do save a lot. I'm a reality TV star but at the end of the day I know you have to save. With my career it can sometimes be over in an instant and that's why I've always saved.

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

History is the gradual instant

He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing - that'll change your emotion.

I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

Fans are giving me instant feedback on a chat box. I keep my fans close by working collectively as a unit. I figure as long as I do that, I can't lose. I use the internet as much as possible.

As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

The Brother's hood fell back, and his silvery hair shone out in the dim chamber like starlight. All the air rushed out of Tessa's lungs in a single instant. The Silent Brother was Jem.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.