Instant Quotes - Page 9

• Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.40, Everyman's Library

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

  Carol Vorderman

  Children, Dies, Bounds

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• Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  World, Fame, Decadence

  "Jesse Metcalfe's Addiction Battle". More! Magazine Interview, www.contactmusic.com. February 02, 2013.

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• When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

  Ella Maillart

  Looks, Literature, Certain

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• I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

  Rebecca Wells

  Taken, Mean, Beloved

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

  Jason Landry

  Opportunity, Connections, Sometimes

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• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  Wanda Sykes

  People, Laughing, Rewards

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• Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.

  James E. Faust

  Men, Years, Listening

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

  Tomas Transtromer

  Shadow, Photograph, Bigger

  "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.

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• In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can't force the farm to produce a harvest, you can't force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready.

  Derek Rydall

  Age, Riches, Want

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• Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Exercise, May, Wells

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.204, Penguin

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• Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “void”. Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they’ll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they’re nowhere to be found.

  Nicole McKay

  Hands, Always Trying, Needs

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• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  David Wilcock

  Healing, Breathing, Everyday

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• Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

  Peter York

  Jobs, Keys, Employment

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• Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Confusion, Adoption

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• Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fate, Sea, Rude

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.199

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• Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passing Moments, Florence, Sincerity

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• God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Children, Waiting

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.21, Zondervan

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• There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

  David Wolpe

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Discipline

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• If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The voice you loved to hear, you will hear again. The identity of the one you were near to on Earth remains the same, and instant recognition will be yours as you meet, never to part again. Your beloved one is only lost awhile.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Heart, Dear Ones, Voice

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• The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Ignorance, Years

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• The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Giving, Mind

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• The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Evil, Departure

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

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