Instant Quotes

• We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Change
  • Lead
  • Bremen

• "If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Communication
  • Kindness
  • Honesty

• Existence begins in every instant.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Instant
  • Begins

• I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Dozen

• You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Job
  • Sometimes

• There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Ocean

• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  

  Charles Bowden
  • Environment
  • Army
  • Drug

• People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.

  

  Elizabeth Sims
  • People
  • Forever
  • Friendship

• I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

  

  Nathalie Handal
  • Writing
  • Poem
  • Instant

• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Change

• I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Real
  • Communication
  • Application

• What was she like? She loved him, really loved him then, for an instant. this, this was easier.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Loved
  • Instant

• on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Nature
  • Moon
  • Cry

• Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Reflection

• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Friends
  • Taken
  • Careers

• The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Logic
  • Competing
  • Paradigm

• The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

  

  Confucius
  • Path
  • Left
  • Instant

• And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

  

  William Gibson
  • Money
  • Eye
  • Blue

• One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Eternity
  • Instant

• The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist.

  

  William Everson
  • Christian
  • Marijuana
  • Transition

• The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

  

  Juan Gris
  • Know
  • Lost
  • Result

• By the time those electric blue eyes seek me out in the stands, my heart throbs fiercely in my temples, and my insides bubble with emotion when he spots me. He stares straight into my eyes, and his eyes are only mine, and his smile is only mine, and for this fraction of an instant, nothing else matters but us.

  

  Katy Evans
  • Heart
  • Smile
  • Emotion

• Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Facts
  • Might
  • Example

• And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothing more than to let her know I'm here. But instead I stay where I am and stare up at the moon as well. And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Together
  • Memories
  • Miracle

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