Instant And Lasting Quotes & Sayings

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection. — Seth

We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplish a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition. — Wendell Berry

After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail - and now pieces tore loose in the eggs and then a red, glistening head emerges in reeking yellow slime - and then the whole centipede crawling out quick. — William S. Burroughs

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats? — Ben Stein

One day she would build her own church, and God would see her, too. They continued traveling along the Arges River, which sometimes was narrow and violently churning, sometimes as wide and smooth as glass. It snaked through the land until reaching the mountains. Everything was a green so deep it was nearly black. Dark gray stones and boulders jutted out of the steeply rising slopes, and beneath them the Arges wandered. It was cooler here than in Tirgoviste, a chill that never quite burned away clinging to the rocks and moss. The looming mountains were so steep that the sun shone directly on the traveling company for only a few hours each day before shadows reclaimed the passes. It smelled of pine and wood and rot - but even the rot smelled rich and healthful, unlike the hidden rot of Tirgoviste. Late — Kiersten White

I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being. — George H. W. Bush

History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality
if only for an instant
by means of creation. — Octavio Paz

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men. — Eric Hoffer

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine. — Ziggy Marley

I'm still very much Kate. — Kate Middleton

True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers — D.F. Jones

Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time. — Louis Riel

Cater to your customers' lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of I belong here. — Marilyn Suttle

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney

I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with ... I'm just a normal person! — Dakota Blue Richards

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget ... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. — John Lennon

The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars. — Heather King