Quotes About Critical Moments

#1. I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be dressed exactly in accordance with my mood. It gives one such confidence, I think.

Christopher Isherwood

#2. In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see

Leonard Nimoy

#3. Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

Osama Bin Laden

#4. War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Aesop

#6. It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Apollo succeeded at critical moments like this because the bosses had no hesitation about assigning crucial tasks to one individual, trusting his judgment, and then getting out of his way.

Gene Kranz

#8. My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!

Boris Spassky

#9. Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#10. At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.

Michael Meade

#11. The Beginning of all things; the critical moments of all things!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

James Nicoll

#13. There's a gate in our heads, too-that's what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our intellects. And at critical moments, it swings open and all kinds of weird shit comes flooding through.

Stephen King

#14. I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

Antonis Samaras

#15. By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Victor Hugo

#16. In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

Viswanathan Anand

#17. Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#18. I lost one illusion last night. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. And it spoils one's career at critical moments.

Oscar Wilde

#19. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Yeltsin

#20. Dee would not be taking him to Olive Garden. That was where I drew the line.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil,

Kimberly McCreight

#22. You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

Terry Pratchett

#23. There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.

Mindy Kaling

#24. The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

Natalie Portman

#25. The pause that followed felt very important. It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.

Megan Abbott

#26. I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Daphne Zuniga

#27. I fear only God, all praises to Him.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#28. As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

Will Self

#29. Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It's evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. There is nothing wrong with having a strong sense of self-preservation.

Penny Reid

#30. He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.

Max Euwe

#31. Finally (Evangeline) whispered, "I wish that I had been more prepared."
"We prepare all of our lives for such moments," Dr. Raphael said, crossing his arms and looking at me with a critical gaze. "When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

Danielle Trussoni

#32. The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Ricky Gervais

#33. But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

George Eliot

#34. I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

Rachel Hartman

#35. When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

Pope Francis

#36. Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.

Hollis Seamon

#37. If you've got time to fantasize about a beautiful death, why not live beautifully until the end?

Hideaki Sorachi

#38. I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

Jonathan Kozol

#39. Don't try to describe an orgasm if you've never had one.

Marty Rubin

#40. The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Robert Barr