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For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. – Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . . – Stan Openshaw - Doomsday	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them. – Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic. – Alexis DeTocqueville	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. – Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit. – Ted Williams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Instant gratification takes too long. – Carrie Fisher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Laughter is an instant vacation. – Milton Berle	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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