| "Laughter is an instant vacation" »Milton Berle |
| "instant gratification takes too long." »Carrie Fisher |
| "Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond." »Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein |
| "Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit." »Ted Williams |
| "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade." »John Christian Bovee |
| "Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day." »Sharon Gold |
| "Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant." »Glenda Jackson |
| "As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." »Maurice Wilkes |
| "The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures." »William James |
| "No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." »Henry Adams |
| "Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." »Daisaku Ikeda |
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