“ In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ”
- e. e. cummings- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults. ”
- Haim Ginott- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. ”
- Eugene Field- Copy
- 779
“ The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ”
- Henri Cartier Bresson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, "I'm going to prove you wrong!". ”
- Picabo Street- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 3.6K
“ There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that. ”
- Anita Brookner- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. ”
- Henry Taylor- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 910
“ Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. ”
- Henry Taylor- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. ”
- Sir Henry Taylor- Copy
- 2K
“ All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time. ”
- William Bridges- Copy
- 626
“ The wish for instant gratification undermines the strengths of both individual and collective enterprise. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ”
- Charlotte Whitton- Copy
- 59
“ Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 3.5K
“ All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Ah, Eugenie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them? ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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