Quotes About Big Moments In Life

#1. You learn to handle the big moments in life by practicing on the little ones.

Mike Huckabee

#2. I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

Arthur H. Vandenberg

#3. Moments like that, I thought maybe there was a God, a fickle puppet-master who decided it was time to remind us that life isn't just an echo of the Big Bang - that we're here, with beating hearts.

Vikki Wakefield

#4. My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

Bear Grylls

#5. There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again.

Nikki Rowe

#6. If you're not attempting to get someone to see, feel, think, or act in a particular manner, why bother communicating at all?

Leonard Koren

#7. The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.

Paul David Tripp

#8. Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear - except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.

Joan D. Chittister

#9. I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?

George Saunders

#10. I had to assume, of course, that every word Koblenz had told me, including "and" and "the," was a lie. That was a given. But I operated on that assumption most of the time anyway: Washington, D.C., is to lying what Hershey, Pennsylvania, is to chocolate.

Joseph Finder

#11. There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

Ann Brashares

#12. Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.

Anne Lamott

#13. We've had musical stuff in the show [ South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

Matt Stone

#14. So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."

Xosha Roquemore

#15. Funny, how we try to plan for things, and anticipate perfect moments, but then life comes and punches our plans in the mouth, leaving us with big fat lips.

Lauren Blakely

#16. The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

Larry Page

#17. It's not about the big deal you struck that day, it's not about the new car, it's not about the obvious stuff. It's about that little introspective moment you had in the middle of all that. Those are moments between the moments, and that's where life is.

Charlie Sheen

#18. Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things - like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day - that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.

Sarah Dessen

#19. ...you can't plan out or perfectly schedule the big moments in your life. They just happen to you when they happen, sometimes because you made them happen and sometimes because you couldn't stop them from happening.

Caitlin Rush

#20. Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.

Marianne Williamson

#21. I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

James McAvoy

#22. I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

Mink Stole

#23. The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing.

C.M. Stunich

#24. All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and ... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

William Forsythe

#25. Yes, life was made up of these instances in time. Big moments hidden inside little decisions.

Genevieve Dewey

#26. When all else fails, men turn to reason.

E. O. Wilson

#27. At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Joseph Campbell

#28. How am I feeling? I'm sort of in the mood to feel righteously indignant but I don't have anything worth getting indignant about. I guess I'm mad that people aren't stupider when I need them to be.

Jenny Lawson

#29. I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

Isabel Allende

#30. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

Cory Booker

#31. We're here today, gone tomorrow and all we have in between are the little moments we can fill up with life, with love. It's not the big things we do, it's the energy we put into making special moments every day. That's what counts.

Jan Hambright

#32. the character of a life isn't set in three or four big moments of life, but in ten thousand little, virtually unnoticed moments.

Paul David Tripp

#33. I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.

Corey Taylor

#34. Those who have played a big part in one's life very rarely disappear from it suddenly for good. They return to it at odd moments ... before leaving it for good.

Marcel Proust

#35. One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.

John Lasseter

#36. I want to again highlight the desperate need for us to pull together - the world over - to tackle knife crime and teach everyone how sacred a life is.

Jermain Defoe

#37. Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Peter Jackson

#38. I hadn't yet learned that you tend to come out of the big moments - the wedding, the book deal, the trip, the death, the birth - as the exact same person who went in, and that perhaps the strangest surprise of life is it keeps on happening to the same ol' you.

Rachel Held Evans

#39. As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

Lee Iacocca

#40. People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.

Joshua Dysart

#41. You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

Fernando Flores

#42. Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.

Sarah Dessen