Quotes About Significant Moments

#1. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute

Atul Gawande

#2. What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

William Scranton

#3. In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but they have their own autonomy, a personality that is often a mystery to me.

Dacia Maraini

#4. It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.

Craig Shaw Gardner

#6. We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#7. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

Buzz Aldrin

#8. You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

Phillip Noyce

#9. True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.

Nicholson Baker

#10. I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.

Anna Agoncillo

#11. If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.

Patrick Wang

#12. So it was like that now, catastrophe inevitable at the most empty moments. Everyone waiting, almost wanting it, a secret, guilty desire for meaning. Their time in history made significant for once by that distant wall of black cloud.

Maggie Helwig

#13. The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble - the representation of your choice. That's all that you can control. But not the ripples - those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.

Michele Bardsley

#14. I guess that's what life is, though, isn't it? A whole bunch of little moments that don't seem significant or life-altering at the time, but when you look back . . .' She shook her head. 'I don't know. They become the most profoundly beautiful things.

Katie Ganshert

#15. We live our life in chains not knowing we always had the keys.

Eagles

#16. Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are.

Susan Sontag

#17. Unthinkable clothing

D.H. Lawrence

#18. There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

Raymond Carver

#19. When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

Maeve Binchy

#20. In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

Pope John Paul II

#22. Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

W.P. Kinsella

#23. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Alain De Botton

#24. Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

Rob Bell

#25. So much of life is in the smallness of moments ... but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant

Ally Condie

#26. I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

Peter Singer

#27. I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

John Barrowman

#28. The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. There are moments that change the course of one's lifetime, and often we don't realize how significant those initial may be until years pass.

Robin Hobb

#30. My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Joe Taslim

#31. Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

Dillon Burroughs

#32. You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

Moonlight Graham

#33. I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.

Tyrese Gibson

#34. Unfortunately, the most significant moments of our lives are often unpleasant.

Andrea Cremer

#35. The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Mary Stewart

#36. I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.

Roberto Cavalli

#37. In his moments of insecurity he was haunted by the suggestion that life might be, after all, significant.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

Caprice Crane