Top 100 A Single Moment Quotes
#1. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges
#2. You're my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I've loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but 'tis true that I wouldn't change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.
Maya Banks
#3. As they say, everybody wins. Of course, an exchange at a single moment in time only pays when there is a division of labor.
Steven Pinker
#4. The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.
Ray Bradbury
#5. In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Stefan Zweig
#6. When once the Heart is awakened, every single moment 'in-time' is a treasure to beheld
AainaA-Ridtz
#7. He would bear any burden, endure any hardship, suffer any torment if that suffering added a single moment to her life.
Rick Yancey
#8. A vision flashed across Nick's mind. It was the image of a lipstick kiss his wife left for him on the mirror that morning. It hung there like the single digit sum to the chalkboard-crammed equation of his life.
Gary Ponzo
#9. I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.
David Levithan
#10. I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets.
Katharine Hepburn
#11. Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
Alexander Pushkin
#12. No matter what happens i choose to value the memories of the good times, grow from the lessons of the bad times because i don't regret a single moment of it, every detail made me who i am.
Tilicia Haridat
#13. I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change. In that single moment, with that realization, I decided to dedicate a year to trying to be happier.
Gretchen Rubin
#14. Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.
Henry Highland Garnet
#15. A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then in a single moment he sees all eternity, and in a single atom he can see the whole reflected.
Osho
#16. Every epic collapse, the provost believed, could be traced back to a single moment - a chance meeting, a bad decision, an indiscreet glance.
Dan Brown
#17. Five minutes ... five days ... and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment.
Danielle Steel
#18. Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking of
her for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out of
hand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months,
and four days ago.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#19. And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.
Ally Carter
#20. The course led them to the moment when, in answer to the highest of one's values, one's spirit makes one's body become the tribute, recasting it
as proof, as sanction, as reward
into a single sensation of such intensity of joy that no other sanction of one's existence is necessary.
Ayn Rand
#21. I didn't see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone's life.
Lisa Unger
#22. Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.
Kristine Carlson
#23. It may have just been a moment to you, but it changed every single one that followed for me.
Pleasefindthis
#24. The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.
Tim Frick
#25. I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.
Dennis Potter
#26. Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.
Burton Silverman
#27. Don't waste a single moment to stay with your parents, cause maybe it could be your last moment with them.
Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez
#28. The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#29. And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
#30. Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#31. Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
Douglas Coupland
#33. My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
Charles Kelley
#34. For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
Charley Pride
#35. If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.
Rachel Hartman
#36. It wasn't that I didn't know anyone's phone number - I didn't - it was that only at this moment did I realize I had no one to call. There wasn't a woman, a colleague, or even a relative that I had to contact. Didn't I have a single friend?
Adam Johnson
#37. At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#38. My heart feels strong for you, my desire isn't just to marry you and let this be our moment, Kiersten. I want to marry you and create a million moments every single day.
Rachel Van Dyken
#39. His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending.
Juliet Marillier
#40. your world can change in a single moment.
Nicola Yoon
#41. Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
Brad Warner
#42. But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [ ... ] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.
William Joyce
#43. Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.
J.D. Robb
#44. Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.
Russell T. Davies
#45. She'd rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. Darhower
#46. So in the end, what is a moment? One action? A single deed? Or is it more? Is a moment like a school of silver fish? The sum of many singular parts forming one cohesive unit? I tend to think so. Because the moment I met Ryan, that was just one of the sum parts.
Marie Hall
#47. New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.
Max Planck
#48. A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.
Kim Edwards
#49. To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
William Carlos Williams
#50. I am a single note, a tone that peals in the wind. I am in the magic of the moment and then he returns, flowing toward me around the thick immense bark of the Sequoia.
Sophia Rose
#51. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Sarah Dessen
#52. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
Pat Conroy
#53. The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.
Pete Wilson
#54. I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.
A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
Jeanette Winterson
#56. You can buy a man's hours off him, you can steal his days from him, or you can rob him of his whole life, but no one can take away from any man so much as a single moment. That's the way it is.
Robert Seethaler
#57. With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
William Faulkner
#58. I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#59. You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#60. Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.
Lou Krieger
#61. Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.
Wayne Dyer
#62. There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He's got you covered.
Mandy Hale
#63. But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!
Hermann Hesse
#64. You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
Emmet Fox
#65. Safi was sick of dancing. Literally, she felt ill from all the spinning, and her breath - she'd not had a single moment to catch it since ... Merik. Prince Merik. The man who couldn't dress himself properly had turned out to be royalty.
Susan Dennard
#66. The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Arnold Bennett
#67. The network of trenches and artillery below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and Werner feels he is gazing down into the circuitry of an enormous radio, each soldier down there an electron flowing single file down his own electrical path, with no more say in the matter than an electron has.
Anthony Doerr
#68. Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.
Sigfried Giedion
#69. I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.
Nelson Mandela
#70. One heartbeat passed and then another, and the moment felt hot and frozen at the same time. Then he smiled, and it was sunshine and heat and unspoken promises wrapped in a single expression.
Colleen Houck
#71. As a self described idealistic I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I'm in between romances at the moment.
Carl Henegan
#72. How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.
Anne Frank
#74. It's terrifying how death can materialize in a single, silent moment, completely unnoticed by the rest of the world.
Ali Novak
#75. Was there a turn, a change in the atmosphere? To single out a particular moment is to distort the record, for it suggests a clear history of cause and effect that can only betray our sense of what really happened.
Steven Millhauser
#76. I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.
Arsenio Hall
#77. My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
Rashida Jones
#78. All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
#79. I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.
Edan Lepucki
#80. Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It's just wide open. That's because the essence of mind is empty. It's wide open and free
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#81. Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.
Auliq Ice
#82. Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust.
Chloe Thurlow
#83. Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa.
A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.
Sarah MacLean
#84. He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
Katharine Hepburn
#85. A single moment of life has more miracles and worth than to live a whole life.
Debasish Mridha
#86. In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.
Jessica Sorensen
#87. Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.
Cynthia Hand
#88. In short, a premise is any single image, moment, feeling, or belief that has enough power and personal meaning for the author to set her story on fire, and propel it like a rocket for hundreds of pages.
Donald Maass
#89. Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
Sabaa Tahir
#90. I've titled this book 'Eighty Is Not Enough' not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.
Dick Van Patten
#91. the line between hunter and hunted can be as small as a single moment of unreadiness.
J.A. McLachlan
#92. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its pages aflame. For that single moment we love them ever after, although they soon turn to ashes.
Bruno Schulz
#93. A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.
Jeff Lindsay
#94. It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.
Narissa Doumani
#95. I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to be a seer. The mission of my life is to enjoy every single moment of my life.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#96. I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.
Byron Katie
#97. One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. If I thought even for one moment that a single molecule were running loose in the universe outside the control and domain of almighty God, I wouldn't sleep tonight.
R.C. Sproul
#99. I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure.
I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
Oscar Wilde
#100. It is impossible to know the whole depth of someone's character from a single moment, but seeing how they respond to the unexpected is a great start.
Lance Conrad
