Top 100 Quotes About That Moment When
#1. It's in that moment, when there's nothing, that you find out what you were willing to forgive, and what not. Too late for that, though. Too late.
Kate Wrath
#2. As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the "other girls," and that every girl in the world is, too.
Mara Wilson
#3. In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#4. You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.
Tosca Reno
#5. Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear
ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Willa Cather
#6. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too?
C.S. Lewis
#7. It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
John Irving
#8. For my soul lies dormant, restless, waiting for that moment when shackles are cast aside and it is free to fly once more.
Virginia Alison
#9. I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.
Rachel Klein
#10. That moment when you buy scissors and then you try to open them but you can't because you DON'T HAVE SCISSORS
Taylor Swift
#11. Jenn said something about taking a picture to make it last longer. I didn't need to. That moment would always be burned in my head. That moment when I knew that I was way in over my head. I was fucked.
Karina Halle
#12. You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.
James Nachtwey
#13. The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
Eliza Doolittle
#14. That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.
Rainbow Rowell
#16. It was that Moment when your fingers touched my skin for the first time I realised, how the fire can heal scars.
Akshay Vasu
#17. [He] turned his back on the window, not knowing why he had gone to it, not knowing what he hoped to see, and just at that moment, when there was no one at the window any more and only a little lamp of colored glass at the back of the room flickering, it appeared.
Roberto Bolano
#18. I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
Hallie Ephron
#19. It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.
Greg Behrendt
#20. There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing.
Rosanne Cash
#21. What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
Stieg Larsson
#22. Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.
Susan Sontag
#23. I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
Elizabeth Scott
#24. Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
Rita Dove
#25. The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.
Mike Nichols
#26. That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.
Christy Hall
#27. I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on.
Drake Bell
#28. No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.
Ken Stott
#29. Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
William Boyd
#30. I kept replaying it. That moment when you let me. Couldn't add and subtract worth a dime. I'm sure I overpaid the man.
C.D. Reiss
#31. Always amusing, that moment when realization finally kicked in. Sometimes, I wished I could've recorded the shit to play over and over for laughs.
Keri Lake
#32. I never thought I had a soul, but in that moment when our eyes met and our hands touched in greeting, my soul screamed for joy.
Celeste Carrara
#33. You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.
Joan Didion
#34. It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, but it's real. It might be the realest, most private thing you could ever see in another person. You wonder who she'll be in that moment, when you finally get past all the pretend.
Joe Hill
#35. Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.
Marian Anderson
#36. I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.
Rufus Wainwright
#37. I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
Imelda May
#38. It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
Malcolm Gladwell
#39. It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life. It is true. That moment when you walk into the Olympic Stadium as part of the Australian Olympic Team, is a moment that I will never forget.
Jeff Fenech
#40. There are choices in life which you are aware, even as you make them, cannot be undone; choices after which, once made, things will never be the same.
There is that moment when you can still walk away, but if you do, you will never know what might have been.
Alan Bradley
#41. Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment.
Rajneesh
#42. But I didn't think I'd ever wanted her more than in that moment when I was witnessing her put herself back together.
Christina Lauren
#43. I love that moment when I feel a connection to another person, however brief or insignificant.
Tohoru Masamune
#44. The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?
Markus Zusak
#45. There are events you witness, or in which you participate, that forever remain sacrosanct and inviolate in memory, no matter how painful that memory is, because of the cost that you or others paid in order to be there in that moment when the camera lens clicked shut.
James Lee Burke
#46. I think every family has that moment when the parents realize they need help and think, Oh my gosh. We cannot do this all alone. Every woman has that panic at some point in motherhood when you feel completely overwhelmed and constantly tired.
Nia Long
#47. I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.
Bela Karolyi
#48. I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
Danny Boyle
#49. There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
Lois Lowry
#50. There comes that moment when we finally know what matters and, perhaps more important, what doesn't, when we see that all the life lessons came not from what we had but from who we loved, and from the failures perhaps more than the successes.
Anna Quindlen
#51. There is a moment when all things can be beautiful, heroic. That moment when life defies death and defeat ... Life and death can be beautiful, and noble, when you fight for your life, but also when you give it up without compromise.
Haydee Santamaria
#52. The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
Seth Shostak
#53. And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
Lauren Oliver
#54. I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
Juliet Marillier
#55. The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas - for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.
Roland Barthes
#56. When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.
Don Piper
#57. There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running down the lawn, the turf exploding from the bullets' impact, he had wondered, only once and without understanding his own feeling of loss, exactly what he was leaving behind.
Meredith Duran
#58. God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.
Is there a word for that moment when two parties are so equally shocked to see each other given the circumstances that all they can do is stare at each other, openmouthed?
August Westman
#60. Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver's seat.
James Hillman
#61. You know that moment when you hug somebody, when your heart feels warm and high in your chest and tingly? When you feel just for a second like a baby in a womb ... that nothing matters? That's how I want you to feel. That's what a girlfriend should do, I think.
Jake Vander Ark
#62. The first time you kissed me?" I say. "That moment when your lips touched mine? You stole a piece of my heart that night
Colleen Hoover
#63. I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.
Frederick Lenz
#64. I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.
Dan Mangan
#65. It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.
Francesca Lia Block
#66. I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.
Stephan Jenkins
#67. Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.
David Rakoff
#68. Do you want to die, Gabriel?" "No." His hand fell to cover hers, heated and rough. "I just want that moment when the choice to live or die isn't my responsibility. Not my life, or anyone else's." Pale eyes fixed on her. "More than anything, I want a reason to keep living.
Cole McCade
#69. I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.
Liev Schreiber
#70. There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
Rumi
#71. When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
Penn Jillette
#72. I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?
Andrea Riseborough
#73. That moment when you are standing at the edge of a life decision may be terrifying, but if you don't jump in - you'll never know!
Maggie Pajak
#74. In that moment when she lay in her bed with her eyes closed tightly against the onslaught of the day, she realized she wanted him more than she wanted to go back in time. More than she wanted to see. More than she wanted to dance.
Vanessa North
#75. In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
Kate Chisman
#76. Becoming a true horseman is learning what to do at that moment when things start to unravel.
Thomas Nye
#77. The idea of empowering people and that moment when someone sees what they are capable of is just incredible to me.
Matthew Hussey
#78. At that moment when you feel like giving up, take a look and search deep inside in oder to understand how far you've come. Don't give up now! Success is right around the corner.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#79. When you believe something so strongly in your heart, never accept no for an answer! Keep pushing forward and prepare for that moment when someone tells you Yes!
Augusta DeJuan Hathaway
#80. There is that moment when you are alone with a man and you both realize it. Alone together, there are always possibilities in that. There is a nearly painful awareness of each other. It can lead to awkwardness, to sex, or to fear, depending on the man and the situation.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#81. I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.
Jennifer Beals
#82. That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field - The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed - it all defines to me why baseball is such a magical game
Jayson Stark
#83. It was heartbreaking when you recognized that moment when pieces of your reality turned into memories.
J. Sterling
#84. Using the tarot cards was like when he had begun learning Latin. He danced ever closer to that moment when he would understand the sentences without having to translate each word.
Maggie Stiefvater
#85. A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen
Gayle Forman
#86. It was like that moment when the roller coaster has reached the top of its first mountain, hesitates a moment . . . tilts . . . plunges . . . and you fall with a sudden blast of hot summer air in your face and a pressure against your chest and your stomach floating somewhere behind you. In
Stephen King
#87. It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.
Penelope Cruz
#88. Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.
Stephen King
#89. At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world, could he have possibly imagined that all these years later, I would be here in my office imagining us imagining him?
Janet Turpin Myers
#90. I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.
Hedi Slimane
#91. There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.
Donald Barthelme
#92. My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'
Bryce Dallas Howard
#93. That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
Francesco Clemente
#94. Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now ... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.
Alethea Kontis
#95. Undoubtedly, on his death bed, at
that moment when, ever since Socrates, it has been proper to pronounce certain elevated words, he told
his wife, as one of my uncles told his, who
had watched beside him for twelve nights, I do not thank you, Therese; you have only done your
duty.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#96. Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
Aaron Levie
#97. I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again, relive that moment when your life changed, and you lost something dear.
R.K. Lilley
#98. Oh that moment when Daniel thought he'd lost her to Cam's starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he'd given up all hope.
Lauren Kate
#99. When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in her jaws. It took me a moment to register that it was a very fresh-looking human spine. Damn, she was hungry.
David Wong
#100. Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )
Italo Calvino
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