Top 100 Quotes About Instant
#1. Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.
Karin Fossum
#2. Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
Homer
#3. Because money permits a constant stream of luxuries and indulgences, it can take away their savor, and by permitting instant gratification, money shortcuts the happiness of anticipation. Scrimping, saving, imagining, planning, hoping
these stages enlarge the happiness we feel.
Gretchen Rubin
#4. In mathematics, there's a name for this short-term greed, the process of always choosing the option that gives you instant gratification. It's called the "greedy algorithm," and following it almost always leads to a plateau.
Bob Sullivan
#5. How could a person be caught that way, in an instant, by a glance, the lift of an eyebrow, the curve of an arm? But he was.
Margaret Atwood
#6. Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
We forget the easiness of free beauty
Lying sad right around the corner,
Only an instant removed,
Unnoticed and squandered.
Dejan Stojanovic
#7. AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.
Brittany Snow
#8. There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.
Mary Karr
#9. He is someone who lives in the moment, with no affection for the past. He savours every instant of the present as if it were still the best and only time, with no comparisons, no measurement.
Kim Thuy
#10. We're all born dying, someone had said. What matters is only how we spend the instant we're given.
Ramez Naam
#11. They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until you are so old that the humped veins on the back of your hands show dark blue-purple through your wax-white skin.
Peter Dickinson
#12. I am incredibly passionate about my life, I am absolutely unable to hide any emotion. If I wrote a book, I'd have to call it 'P is for Passion'. I don't go in for anything halfway. My feelings about things are instant, on the spot. And my heart is always, always on my sleeve.
Kate Winslet
#13. I dared fix my eyes one instant toward glory:
a black point is settled in my avid eye.
Joanna McClure
#14. 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
#15. Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
John Wesley
#16. The situation was absurd. He wore riding boots with spurs. Her hair tumbled about her like a shaggy pony's. They were in the schoolroom with the furniture pushed about higgledy-piggledy. But in that instant, she would have danced a fandango with a rose in her teeth if Lochinvar had asked her to.
Marissa Doyle
#17. There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#18. Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#19. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.' I
Max Porter
#20. Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.
Peter Singer
#21. I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-"
"Well deserved, sir. Well deserved."
"And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be run down because of it.
M T Anderson
#23. The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin
#24. At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips.
Fritz Leiber
#25. Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.
Caterina Scorsone
#26. The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
Plutarch
#27. Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service
William Shakespeare
#28. I rented Ghostbusters, my all-time favorite inspirational movie. I picked up some microwave, popcorn, a KitKat, a bag of bite-sized Reese's peanut butter cups, and a box of instant hot chocolate with marshmallows. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?
Janet Evanovich
#29. McCleary was an unpolished, semi attractive man in his late thirties or early forties. His hair was grey. His suit was cheap. His cologne was cheaper and his attitude was a hundred percent asshole. He have me an instant boner.
Dani Alexander
#31. There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin
#32. Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
Bill Murray
#33. All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
Gregory Maguire
#35. Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.
Lahiri Mahasaya
#36. I'm at your feet forever, Olivia Rose," I whispered the instant before our lips met. "I'll move heaven and earth to give you whatever you want, whatever you need.
Nina Lane
#37. An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.
Susan Abulhawa
#38. We're going to get through this. Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.
David Levithan
#39. Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.
Jason Landry
#40. I push through the crowd and draw even nearer, so near I can smell him. So near I could touch him. I could take his hand, twist it just so and force him to his knees in an instant. He would never see it coming. He would barely know what happened. ~This
Shaun Roundy
#41. I hate cats."
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
"I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.
Terry Pratchett
#42. I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
Saint Augustine
#43. Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.
Lea Michele
#44. With courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!
Phyllis Bottome
#45. 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.
Thomas Carlyle
#46. We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory, instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.
Wayne LaPierre
#47. Illium was a stunning sight against the lightening sky, his wings sweeping through the air with a grace that made him seem a half-forgotten dream. When he landed in the courtyard, his wings flaring out for an instant, he was at once very much a man, physical and sexual, and an unattainable fantasy.
Nalini Singh
#48. 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.
Eva Ibbotson
#49. In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.
Amy Dickinson
#50. I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent.
Hillary Clinton
#51. Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.
Bob Hope
#52. A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.
Saadi
#53. Anything of a serious nature isn't "instant" - you can't "do" the Sistine Chapel in one hour. And who has time to listen to a Mahler symphony, for God's sake?
Jonathan Cott
#54. He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.
Jeet Thayil
#55. I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady Gaga
#56. Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.
Kate Morton
#57. The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
Thomas Hobbes
#58. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.
Anonymous
#59. The phone rang again almost the instant I put it down, making me jump. I peered at it. I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect -
Jim Butcher
#60. The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. How instant it was, desire. It was like a bomb exploding, fragmenting and igniting all her nerve endings.
Paullina Simons
#62. Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
M. John Harrison
#63. The very instant that I saw You, did my heart fly to Your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for Your sake.
William Shakespeare
#64. Sometimes twenty years seemed like an instant, and sometimes it seemed like a very long time indeed.
Diana Gabaldon
#65. 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.
Paul Reps
#66. Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small
Marcus Aurelius
#67. For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.
Graham Greene
#69. Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
David Deida
#70. When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.
Madonna Ciccone
#71. Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.
Luke Rhinehart
#73. What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
Chris Martin
#74. Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited, all atremble, all day. How relieved, how eased, the whole world suddenly became! How the great questions all simplified themselves at the same instant
did you feel it?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#75. Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#76. It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
Hope Davis
#77. An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
A.M. Jenkins
#78. Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.
Ted Agon
#79. His Grace woke up in the morning red-eyed as a ferret and in roughly the same temper as a rabid badger. Had I a tranquilizing dart, I would have shot him with it without an instant's hesitation.
Diana Gabaldon
#80. We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.
M. Scott Peck
#81. Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
Lucian Freud
#82. Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.
Betty Goodwin
#83. Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.
Andrew Cohen
#84. 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
#85. Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting. It obviously is tough [to be a parent], but when you feel that love, and it's instant, and it's so cool, so fun. When your baby smiles at you or when you just hold your baby, it's a pretty awesome feeling.
Clayton Kershaw
#86. 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.
Ram Dass
#87. When you meet somebody and you have an instant connection - why is that? Maybe you've met before? Maybe you've met in another life? Anything's possible.
Jim Sturgess
#88. Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#89. Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.
Poul Anderson
#90. The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
William James
#91. The stiff-witted and academic seem not to comprehend that it is entirely possible to be ironic and sincere at the same instant, that a knowing tongue in cheek does not necessarily preclude an affectionate glow in heart.
Tom Robbins
#92. One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
Salman Rushdie
#93. Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.
Gene Wolfe
#94. We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Rachael Taylor
#95. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
Eileen Caddy
#96. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on ... it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it 'Jumping the Shark.' From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.
Jon Hein
#97. And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.
M T Anderson
#98. In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
#99. Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.
Emeli Sande
#100. On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.
Jeff Cooper
