Crucial Moment Quotes

#1. Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#2. I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.

Yousuf Karsh

#3. Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

Derek Ibbotson

#5. Love makes you weak. Love has unseen bondages that take you into the abyss of failure at that crucial moment when victory and failure get balanced. Beware of love.

Anand Neelakantan

#6. The proper way for the woman to test the man's love is thus to "betray" him at a crucial moment in his career

Slavoj Zizek

#7. When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

Alan Huffman

#8. Just being a human being, I've realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could've just said no.

Taylor Swift

#9. Without the journey and crucial moment of understanding, I would still be questioning everything before me. I know now that I must trust what comes next, for there is a plan greater than the one I can see at work.

Brynn Myers

#10. We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives;

Thomas Bernhard

#11. Coincidence, when raised to a symbol, occurs with mathematical precision at the most crucial moment, even for the squarest of minds. A moment the rest of us call higher will, Fate's gesture, something like that.

Odysseus Elytis

#12. Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

Whitney Young

#14. We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.

Darin Strauss

#15. The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.

Eric Drooker

#16. And yet - when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds one-self pressing, in great pain, through a maze of false signals and abruptly locking doors.

James Baldwin

#17. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Dan Simmons

#18. And for the sake of humility
a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

David Dark

#19. There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

Rene Descartes

#20. Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Francois Fenelon

#21. In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

Ethel Merman

#22. The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.

Erma Bombeck

#23. It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

Michael Weisskopf

#24. I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

Glenda Millard

#25. How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?

Paula Stokes

#26. Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.

Steve Erickson

#27. Sometimes writing is pure hell. I'll write something and look at it in a few hours and say, "This is crap. What will I do with my life? I'll never write again." It's a bipolar business, and you bounce back. You become gripped with some new insight that shows the way.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#28. Empathy plays a crucial role in the reduction of stress from the moment of birth.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#29. My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

Ang Lee

#30. Everyone has had, at a given moment, an extraordinary experience which will be for him, because of the memory of it he preserves, the crucial obstacle to his inner metamorphosis.

Emil Cioran

#31. The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

#32. Whatever you are doing, therefore, whatever you are thinking, whatever you are feeling becomes of crucial importance at that moment,

Lionel Fisher

#33. This is a fantastic place to come back to in one's next life. Forget Nirvana, make a mess to come back.

Milika M.

#34. The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

Irving Chernev

#35. She could not tell him that she protested because she did not believe he loved her enough to become his wife. It was no ordinary man but the Prince of Light who was asking her to be his bride. And, she thought gloomily, what sacrifice might she have disregarded had his gaze been only for her?

Noriko Ogiwara

#36. Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?

Christina Engela

#37. But she wondered if, in moving outside of the natural flow of time, they had forgotten the most crucial point of life - that it wasn't meant to be lived for the past, or even the future, but for each present moment.

Alexandra Bracken

#38. In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.

Roger D. Woodard

#39. One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.

Todd May

#40. At this very moment, I am suffering - as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emil Cioran