Instant Quotes - Page 22

• The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

  Ann Widdecombe

  War, Book, School

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• It's now or never. This is simple to say, but then to live like that is not easy at all, I'm sorry. You have to be aware enough so that you can see situations as they pass in front of you and be able to catch the instant, whatever it is. Many times, you just don't see the moment when you were yawning and then it's too late.

  Vincent Cassel

  Sorry, Simple, Yawning

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

  Charles Simic

  Lucidity, Organisms

  Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”

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• People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Clever, People, One Liner

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Practice, Forever

  Wendell Berry (2013). “This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems”, p.222, Counterpoint

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• Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Years, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.

  Lenny Bruce

  New York, Marine, Air

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• The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heaven, Speak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

  Robert Bateman

  Sweet, Pudding, Flavor

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• The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Yield, World, Steps

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• Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

  Tony Robbins

  Significant Change, Long, Decision

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• I absolutely loved it, and I loved the way the character of D'Artagnan had been portrayed. I was just well up for it. So, I went in and met (director) Toby [Haynes], and as soon as I got into that room, to see how excited everybody was to get this underway and onto the set, it just drew me to it, even more. It was an instant attraction, so I was delighted when I got the offer.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Character, Directors, Toby

  Source: collider.com

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• Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.

  Marc Price

  Drinking, Coffee, Alcohol

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• The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Stress, Secret, Forgiving

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• Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Sometimes, Take Time, It Takes Time

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• Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.

  Amy Webb

  Sweet, Sleep, Two

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• A lot of people try to use sarcasm to flirt, and it tends not to read well. Most people who are successful at flirting do so via instant message instead of email. The best way to flirt is to care deeply about whatever your date is saying and to focus all of your attention on him or her. Ask thoughtful questions. Take a keen interest in the conversation. Be enthusiastic.

  Amy Webb

  Sarcasm, Successful, Thoughtful

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• Be nice to your hairstylist. It's an instant gratification! It doesn't matter how badly their day has gone, in that moment they feel amazing. And the hairdresser has made them feel that way.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Nice, Gone, Matter

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• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Views, Practice, Ego

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• [I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Military, Government, Support

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• The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Cutting, Past, Remember

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• The thing is, as an actor, I get bored a little bit. I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it's wonderful and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it - all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.

  Vincent Cassel

  Cutting, Bored, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

  Martha Graham

  Knowing, Giving, Dancer

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Giving, Creative

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• As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

  Steve Rushin

  Pregnancy, Games, Progress

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