Instant Quotes - Page 30

• If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

  Graham Nash

  New Life, Earth, Spinning

  The Acoustic Storm Interviews, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

  Donny Osmond

  People, Sometimes, Entitlement

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• The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Government

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.86

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• He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

  Gilbert Parker

  Light, Goal, Forever

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

  Martha Plimpton

  Character, Thinking, Zing

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• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  Orson Pratt

  God, Father, Son

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.18, Latter-day Strength

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• Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

  Josh Radnor

  Kindness, Appreciate, Risk

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

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• I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

  Jeremy Renner

  Guitar, People, Cameras

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• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Powerful, Past

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, Epic

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• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

  Gene Simmons

  Kings, Stars, Rocks

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• When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

  Simon Sinek

  Phones, People, Trying

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• Instant gratification is not soon enough.

  Meryl Streep

  Women, Memorable, Soon Enough

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• I need instant gratification.

  Barbra Streisand

  Needs, Instant Gratification, Gratification

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• My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Gossip, Fans

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• In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

  John Millington Synge

  Pain, War, Wind

  John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Possibility Of Change, Miracle, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.9, Penguin

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• Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

  Ted Turner

  Crazy, Communication, Cost

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• Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Accents, Remove

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• In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Coffee, Waiting, Tradition

  "10 Questions for Elie Wiesel". Interview with Jeff Chu, content.time.com. January 22, 2006.

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• Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

  Bernard Williams

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

  Robert Winston

  Biblical, Accepted, Jewish History

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

  Judith Wright

  Past, Want, Superficial

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• I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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