Immediate Quotes

• At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Time
  • Equipment
  • Grab

• The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Struggle
  • Daily
  • Need

• Acting is very immediate.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Acting
  • Very
  • Immediate

• Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Act
  • Govern

• Don’t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don’t settle for less, wait for God’s best.

  

  Alex Gonzaga
  • Wait
  • Ultimate
  • Immediate

• The satisfactions of agreement are immediate as sugar - a melting of the granular, a syrup that lingers, shared not singular. Many prefer it.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Agreement
  • Prefer
  • Satisfactions

• Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Needs

• For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • Worry
  • Survival
  • Artistic

• The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Future
  • Literature
  • Immediate

• On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Energy
  • Harmony
  • Written

• The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Education
  • Water
  • Practice

• Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Needs
  • Obey

• The immediate results may be great: a place to shop for essential items, more revenue for the city. We have to be thankful for the tax money that will benefit our city's schools and parks.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Great
  • Result
  • Immediate

• The best solutions are not immediate solutions.

  

  Gary Shapiro
  • Best
  • Solutions
  • Immediate

• Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

  

  John Milton
  • God
  • Acts
  • Immediate

• Imagine a doctor in Chicago doing an operation for someone in Taiwan using robotic surgery. You want the doctor to feel immediate feedback to what the robot is experiencing.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Operation
  • Experiencing
  • Taiwan

• Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

  

  Neil McDonald
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Foolish

• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Beautiful
  • Faith
  • Forgiveness

• Not everything has to be immediate.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Immediate

• The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Relationship
  • Existence
  • Reaction

• I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!

  

  Esteban Cortazar
  • Clothes
  • Outfit
  • Immediate