Instant Quotes

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.

Rock & roll is instant coffee.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit.

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.

In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

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.

We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

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.

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.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

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

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.

Existence begins in every instant.

Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.