Quotes About Instant

It is a rotten world in many ways. In too many ways. But the world isn't only rotten, even if it's actively rotting right this very instant. Yes, I am quite certain there are still some perfectly good spots, some terrific people, some things utterly unrotted. They're out there, I know it.

People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'.

Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.

I only live one time.

Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.

A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking – without letting your neocortex play into the decision – you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

The past is gone. It is now always today.

Time (is) a fabric; the instant called now (is) only a thread.

The holy instant is the result of your determination to be holy. 2It is the answer. 3The desire to have it and the willingness to let it come precede its coming.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.

Assassination creates an instant hero of its target. Any past sins are not just forgiven but utterly forgotten.

It was strange to realize that this was it, and it had happened to him at last, as it had always been destined to happen someday, and in an instant he was going to cheat to the back of the book for the answer to the greatest mystery of all.

He only had time to feel all the tenderness he had ever felt for her surge up in one infinitely concentrated instant - and to be surprised that it was all still there, moist and intact beneath the unsightly scorched layer of his anger...

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

A video referee is useful for sure.

We'd love to see a world where Venmo added support on the blockchain, then a Circle customer could pay a Venmo customer using their QR code or their blockchain address - and go between those instantly and for free.

In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

My success was pretty overnight.

The long pause before action was always hard to bear, but now in a few seconds everything would vanish but for the living instant – no sadness, no time for fear.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

And I had the gringo's instant assurance that my country, and my car, was just behind the humongous wall.