Instant

Famous quotes containing the word instant:

“Let’s take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees
Th’ inaudible and noiseless foot of time
Steals ere we can effect them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“You held my hand
and were instant to explain
the three rings of danger.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
—William James (1842–1910)