The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.... It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity, ... [ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One lives for today, one lives on the spur of the moment--one lives most irresponsibly: and it is precisely this that one calls "f...reedom."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child s...ays that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well may Mr. [David] Garrick be so celebrated, so universally admired--I had not any idea of so great a performer. Such ease! such... vivacity in his manner! such grace in his motions! such fire and meaning in his eyes!--I could hardly believe he had studied a written part, for every word seemed uttered from the impulse of the moment. ... his voice--so clear, so melodious, yet so wonderfully various in its tones!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word of the moment is "classless," whether applied to Cockney Society photographers or sprigs of the aristocracy running littl...e bistros round the corner. Mick Jagger, alternately slurring yob and lisping lordling, is classlessness apotheosised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly he found he had pressed the spring of the grenade. He struggled to pull it out of his pocket. It stuck in the narrow pock...et. His arm and his cold fingers that clutched the grenade seemed paralyzed. Then a warm joy went through him. He had thrown it. Anderson was standing up, swaying backwards and forwards. The explosion made the woods quake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations ...of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will th...e casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there ha...s not been, in all history, another age ... when so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »