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. 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
#3. He would bear any burden, endure any hardship, suffer any torment if that suffering added a single moment to her life.
Rick Yancey
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Five minutes ... five days ... and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment.
Danielle Steel
#11. 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
#12. I didn't see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone's life.
Lisa Unger
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. your world can change in a single moment.
Nicola Yoon
#19. She'd rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. Darhower
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.
Pete Wilson
#23. I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.
A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
Jeanette Winterson
#25. 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
#26. You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
Emmet Fox
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.
Nelson Mandela
#30. How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.
Anne Frank
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. A single moment of life has more miracles and worth than to live a whole life.
Debasish Mridha
#38. 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
#39. the line between hunter and hunted can be as small as a single moment of unreadiness.
J.A. McLachlan
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment where I thought to myself, Oh, I need to write about Margaret Cavendish. She just kept taking over the book I thought I was writing.
Danielle Dutton
#45. The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.
Steve McCurry
#46. I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
Raf Simons
#47. God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet.
Phillip DePoy
#49. For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
Albert Camus
#50. Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.
Joel Osteen
#51. The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile - it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#52. How wonderful it is that nobody wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Diana E. Ruiz
#53. Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
Anton Chekhov
#54. chief beauty about the constant supply of 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 unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.
Arnold Bennett
#55. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life! Wake up now! And now! And now! 6.
Ruth Ozeki
#56. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.
Oscar Wilde
#57. There were two types of cosmologies in religion, the first based on a single moment when God created the universe, the second based on the idea that the universe always was and always will be. They
Michio Kaku
#58. Could anything be more stupid than to praise a person for something that is not his? Or more crazy than admiring things which in a single moment can be transferred to another?
Seneca.
#59. A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.
John L'Heureux
#60. Never for a single moment have I believed that you are the murderer, the trembling voice suddenly burst from Alyosha's breast, and he raised his right hand as if calling on God to witness his words. Mitya's whole face instantly lit up with bliss.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#61. If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?
Marcus Sedgwick
#62. She talks to me about regret, but what she doesn't realize is that even if she destroys me in the end, I'll never want to erase what we have. I'd never want to take back a single moment of this.
J.M. Darhower
#63. If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.
Shekhar Kapur
#64. If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.
Deepak Chopra
#65. I never forgot you - not for a single day, not for a single moment.
Paulo Coelho
#66. Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges
#67. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
Muriel Barbery
#68. We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists
Nikos Kazantzakis
#69. The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.
Loren Eiseley
#70. Can all you worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not!
Matthew 6 27 NLT
#71. It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
Deb Caletti
#72. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet.
Oscar Wilde
#73. I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.
Lorraine Heath
#74. When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
#75. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment.
Robin Sloan
#76. I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.
Anne Robinson
#77. In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
Jane D. Hull
#78. You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand.
Leigh Bardugo
#79. If we lose the ability in question for a single moment only, we are immediately being hijacked by an aggressive little "Think me!" and our mind begins to wander.
Thomas Metzinger
#80. I don't look back on my life with a single moment of regret or remorse for things I didn't do, should have done or might have done differently.
Dave Liniger
#81. Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted.
Wes Moore
#82. For him, to get one's bearings on the world meant to conceive all its contents as simultaneous, and to guess at their interrelationships in the cross-section of a single moment. This
Mikhail Bakhtin
#83. If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.
Rumi
#84. Nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.
Robin Sloan
#85. Never doubt that a single moment can change everything.
Marty Rubin
#86. Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure!
Charles Dickens
#87. You can count the days u were been together with your arranged life partner, but can't count the feelings and depth of love of a single moment u have spent with your lover
Er.teji
#88. Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#89. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.
Nicholas Sparks
#90. A cry-wanking scene is the struggle to live, in a single moment.
James McAvoy
#91. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
#92. Donald is not sure what the universe was trying to tell him by taking away his only daughter, but here is what he learned: no one can put a price on losing everything. And another thing: all your future histories can be destroyed in a single moment.
Nicola Yoon
#93. I love you so much ... I don't want to live a single moment without you at my side.
Lara Adrian
#94. Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!
Ruth Ozeki
#95. Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness.
Erika Johansen
#96. After the first week, I worried that I would forget moments, and so I drew them. Everything I could think of, every angle. I dreamed about you. And I tried to capture you so I wouldn't lose a single second of a single moment, because what if I never got to have them again?
Damon Suede
#97. The ripple effect stemming from a single moment of love might be infinite in reach.
Narissa Doumani
#98. Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.
Lady Margaret Sackville
#99. Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment .
Oscar Wilde
#100. Life is short. Don't waste a single moment.
Tess Alley
