Each instant of life is a step toward death.
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
The first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?" And they were told: "Wen considered the nature of time and understood the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only ...
We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.
I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
Perfume can instigate an instant intimacy with a complete stranger.
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification ...
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.
