Immanent Vs Imminent Quotes & Sayings

Surrender doesn't have to be a heavy, solemn thing. It can be a joyous relief. Finally the burden is off you. — Annette Vaillancourt

It has been observed of the warring Turks, that often they used this notable deceit - to send a lying rumor and a vain tumult of war to one place, but, in the meanwhile, to address their true forces to another place, that so they might surprise those who have been unwarily led by pernicious credulity. So have we manifest (alas! too, too manifest) reasons to make us conceive, that whilst the chief urgers of the course of conformity are skirmishing with us about the trifling ceremonies (as some men count them), they are but laboring to hold our thoughts so bent and intent upon those smaller quarrels, that we may forget to distinguish between evils immanent and evils imminent, and that we be not too much awake to espy their secret slight in compassing further aims. — George Gillespie

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living. — Alain De Botton

At that moment, in the temple of her lovers' tangled limbs, Lea felt the presence of the Divine close by, immanent and imminent - everywhere and everywhen - and it was a sublime feeling, one that made her feel infinitely powerful and infinitely small, both at the same time.

A good fuck can make even an agnostic see God - a fact that explained Lea's parents' fascination with Tantra, something about which Lea thought as little as possible. — K.D. West

...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions. — Jamil Ahmad

It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history. — Leon Day

I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed. — Tracy Pollan

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back. — Hume Cronyn

My success has nothing to do with opportunities or luck; I just keep doing things until it is done. — M.F. Moonzajer

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail. — Jan Hus

Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts". — Dean Koontz

I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair. — Ben Lerner

They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. — Jane Austen

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy. — Liya Kebede

Do we not see that we are inarticulate? That is what defeats us. It is our inability to communicate to another how we are locked within ourselves, unable to say the simplest thing of importance to one another, any of us, even the most valuable, that makes our lives like those of a litter of kittens in a wood-pile. — William Carlos Williams

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. — Francis Ford Coppola