Quotes of: Immediate-response Keyword

Victimhood gives us great moral superiority and entitles us to unquestioning sympathy while exempting us from examining any single one of our actions. A victim is utterly devoid of responsibility or blame. This of course leaves us vulnerable as we wi...

Belinda Brown

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself?

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Existence

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

The Great Gatsby

Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.

Gone Girl

A brick could be used to tell how hard the wind is blowing. If the wind blows the brick around, I’d get out of there immediately. 

Brick and Blanket

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

Biting Bad

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

Bill Viola

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Nora Ephron

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Henry Hazlitt

I want to meet the girl of my dreams, and then immediately try to sleep with her—for between six to eight hours.

$3.33

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Mastery

Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: "Well, fuck.

The Night Circus

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

Master and Commander

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls.

Othello

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

A Primer Of Soto Zen

There we go, I see a human and immediately ascribe to them a pronoun and a sexuality. Be the change.

Queer on a Bench

Yesterday I inhaled a cloud, and immediately my eyes started raining.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You