Life Is Measured In Moments Quotes

#1. President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

John Doolittle

#2. Daytime Bartender Moonlights as a madman. Now there's a novel,

Kimberly Bettes

#3. If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises?
-Clary, pg.239-

Cassandra Clare

#4. I shut the door behind me. "Are you listening?"
Thomas lifted his chin. "I'll start listening when you do.

Jamie McGuire

#5. Life shouldn't be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a short life filled with a stock of extraordinary memories is worth a thousand times what a long, boring and loveless one is.

Emiliano Campuzano

#6. a life is measured by moments like these

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.

Brooke Burgess

#8. She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. Now is the time to become a myth.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#10. I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together

Sapan Saxena

#11. There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Maxim Gorky

#12. When she drifted off, she was thinking of Ryne, strangely. A pity if he was afraid of her, now. A great pity if he turned out to be a Darkfriend. He was charming, and quite pretty, really. She did not mind a man wanting to see her unclothed, only his telling others about it.

Robert Jordan

#13. And that's how life is measured - not by the length, but by the strength of those moments spent together.

Rachel Van Dyken

#14. Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Carly Fiorina

#15. They say that life isn't measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I have to agree with that.
[...]
And I am breathless now.
Because I am breaking.
Breaking inside, fragments, jagged and sharp.
Breaking in slow motion.

Karina Halle

#16. To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H.L. Mencken

#17. I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the truth was that I had never put myself forward as a writer, I didn't like the idea of the 'professional writer'; I just wanted to write. But that was not how the world worked...

Bonnie Greer

#18. Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

#19. Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

Vicki Corona

#20. But I then thought of how the value of my work as a doctor is measured solely in the value of other people's lives, and that included the people in front of me in the check-out queue.

Henry Marsh

#21. Moments vs. Years
Life's too long when measured in years,
and too short when measured in moments.

Beryl Dov

#22. Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

Marina Abramovic

#24. Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.

Chaz Bundick

#25. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take your breath away - anon

Scarlett Flame

#26. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Kara Goucher