Top 165 Prompt Quotes & Sayings

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted?otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.

We get prompt feedback on social network. The overseas audience is quick to convey what they feel about a film and we realise whether we are up to date.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point.

If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!

The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to feed its seven billion people.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

Oh, I am a prompt person!

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

In Serbia's case, the unresolved accountability for the Bytyqi brothers massacre needs to be resolved. And we would urge you to give this matter prompt and immediate attention to bring those responsible to justice for this tragedy.

I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Arguably, it might prompt consumers to think about their consumption, with paper straws and reusable grocery bags and shared urban bicycles acting as a gateway to more meaningful changes.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I've never recovered.

For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.