Top 100 Quotes About Moment
#1. And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!
Isla Fisher
#3. Pg 12
"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed
eventually.
Frank Delaney
#4. How do you know when an apology is true - when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?
Beth Kephart
#5. To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
Alexandra David-Neel
#6. Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
Annie Lennox
#7. True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.
Eckhart Tolle
#8. The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
John Desmond Bernal
#9. Percy threw his arms around her. They kissed, and for a moment nothing else mattered. An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn't have cared.
Rick Riordan
#11. That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.
Jose Saramago
#12. Her mother paused for a moment before hanging up the phone. "Watch your back, dear. Every family needs a black sheep. It would be an awful lot of trouble for us to come up with another one, should something happen to you.
Deborah Blake
#13. The moment you accept the troubles you have been given , the door will open
Jalaluddin Rumi
#14. Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
Jim George
#15. All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#16. I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.
Kylie Minogue
#17. From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
Eamon De Valera
#18. We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#19. She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.
Stephanie Bond
#20. What is the modern mind?" asked Grant.
"Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive
and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within.
G.K. Chesterton
#21. People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.
Zoe Heller
#22. We have our phones right by our beds, right next to us in our most exposed, vulnerable moments. And yet the government could have been collecting information from our phones at any moment. I think that basically as humans, we feel that's a violation.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#23. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
Alberto Manguel
#24. Takes a moment to change everything. Savannah glanced at Jane, then smiled at Hunter. "I see you found my car." "It's just the hot rod
Janette Rallison
#25. Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
Vladimir Potanin
#26. I'd stopped breathing and everything about that moment was like stumbling into a 3-D movie after living a 2-D life.
Karen Tayleur
#27. Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.
Marie Lu
#28. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#29. I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
Maria Monk
#30. Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
H.G.Wells
#31. You've got to look at the pragmatic choice you have at each moment. If you start to look at the pragmatic choice, a different possibility can show up.
Gary M. Douglas
#32. If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey
#33. The mind always moves on and on. Whatsoever you get becomes useless. The moment you get it, it is useless. This is desire. Buddha has called it trishna: this is becoming.
Osho
#34. Perry, I've wanted you since the moment I saw you. I'm not going to stop showing you off or rubbing it in to everyone I know, anytime soon ... You're mine. And you're mine alone. From now until the end of time.
Karina Halle
#35. It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.
Sophia Loren
#36. Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know - the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table - which you, specifically, is the real one?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#37. All I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
Rebecca Makkai
#38. She was beginning to like this guy. She'd fallen in love with him the moment she first saw him, and she would love him now until the end of world. But she'd never dreamed she'd like him so much.
Anonymous
#39. My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.
Beatriz Williams
#40. You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
Erin Morgenstern
#41. Does she want me to cum? he thought. This was the frustrating part about vanilla sex. He never got to decide anything, and if he asked any question he would "ruin the moment." So it was all up in the air, never knowing exactly what the fuck was going on.
Joshua Edward Smith
#42. The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
Otto Von Bismarck
#43. You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?
John L'Heureux
#44. Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.
Serina Hartwell
#45. This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF.
Kamal Ravikant
#46. The very old, he thought, make our past. Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence.
P.D. James
#47. Micheal sighed and closed his eyes for a moment'i'm not sure that was a good idea
claire:it will be if you go see her tonight and tell her well watever oh but watch out shes gone all buffy with the stakes and things
Rachel Caine
#48. The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
Robert Caro
#49. What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
David Levithan
#50. One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.
Keanu Reeves
#52. Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#53. The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
Mortimer J. Adler
#54. I didn't think about his world or mine or the future we couldn't have. I only thought about the warm light behind my eyelids, his soft murmurs in my ear, and the fullness of what we had in that moment. And we touched in all the ways of yesterday and more.
Mary E. Pearson
#55. I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
Kathryn Lasky
#56. Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'
Agatha Christie
#57. You can't live for a moment that may not happen. You need to live in the moment.
Jake Roberts
#58. Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.
Timothy Findley
#59. And I think it was a great Frenchman, Voltaire, who said that the beginning of wisdom is the moment when one understands how little concerned with one's own life are other men, they who are so desperately preoccupied with their own. I knew nothing about you and that boy, nothing at all.
William Styron
#60. Arrive with enthusiasm to every waking moment of your life.
Heidi Priebe
#61. You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.
Sam Harris
#62. I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.
Cherry Jones
#63. it's funny how the same structure could imprison you and the next moment it could be where you felt safest. It was all perspective. Abel
Kenan Hillard
#64. In this moment, looking into his eyes while he doing these things to me, I feel overwhelmed, scared it'll all be taken away, but most of all the beginning of what I think is freedom. Free to be me. Free to feel human and not my parents puppet.
N.E. Henderson
#65. When you work, live, love and play without waiting for the next moment, everything you are and encounter flourishes.
Ryan Kurczak
#66. The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
Edward Weston
#67. But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer term, of responsibilities and obligations, debts to be paid, promises to fulfil. I
David Nicholls
#68. The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.
Henry Adams
#69. I did this one scene in an episode of 'General Hospital', and that was my first job down in L.A. It was, like, my second audition, and I was like, 'Woo! This is easy! This is fun!' That was a really cool moment for me.
Bridgit Mendler
#70. Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.
Wayne Dyer
#71. Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.
Kadir Nelson
#72. A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Ernest Bramah
#73. Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith
#74. Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.
Slug
#75. Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.
Daisaku Ikeda
#76. There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
Karen Elson
#77. of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent nonpsalmic "worship" based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who,
N. T. Wright
#78. For at the moment of the final division, the final miniaturization of matter, suddenly the whole cosmos opened up.
Thomas Mann
#79. All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
#80. Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.
Haruki Murakami
#81. Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.
Shannon L. Alder
#82. Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man, to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and a feeling of affection and freedom and justice. These words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus strike me as pretty good advice, for even the orneriest young scamp.
Walker Percy
#83. Johnson told the doctors that "he enjoyed nothing but whiskey, sunshine and sex." Reedy found the moment "poignant," he was to recall. "Without realizing what he was doing, he had outlined succinctly the tragedy of his life. The only way he could get away from himself was sensation: sun, booze, sex.
Robert A. Caro
#84. Every moment, as we walk on this earth, we are watched and judged by the eyes of the universe.
Ken Liu
#85. You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.
Stephen Breyer
#86. Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.
Robby Benson
#87. I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
Toby Jones
#88. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
#89. You think you deserve to be sad," he says. There is a moment of silence as we look at each other. "You think it is okay for you to be sad every day. But it's not okay. And you do not deserve it.
Laura Nowlin
#90. The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.
Emma Watson
#91. We will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.
Robert Anthony
#92. Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
Julien Green
#93. I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
Al McGuire
#94. Rules are meant to protect us, so I follow them. Something might feel good at the moment, but the consequences are scary.
Wendy Higgins
#95. Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.
Mark Twain
#96. But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.
Neil Burger
#97. Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John Bradshaw
#98. Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
that wild darkness,
that long, blue body of light.
Mary Oliver
#99. The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.
Smith Wigglesworth
#100. We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment.
Loch Kelly
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