Quotes About That Moment

#1. at that moment, old Joe Vigil was the only coach in America shivering in a freezing forest at four in the morning, waiting for a glimpse of a community-college science teacher and seven men in dresses.

Christopher McDougall

#2. People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

John Green

#3. Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Jeff Koons

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I must be better, she thought - realising it then, in that moment, for the first time. I must be OK.

Sarah Waters

#8. In that moment, we were the same, each of us destroyed by our limited understanding of reality.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#9. It mattered not that no one else would bear that moment witness nor remember it, for if the future could not know them, neither could the past confine them, and the choice was always theirs to make, the tale their own to finish,

Susanna Kearsley

#10. When I looked at Quaadir at that moment, I didn't see my brother. I saw the nigga God who wanted to kill me and take my bitch. Yeah, a nigga was tripping hard as fuck because neither of them had given me an inkling that they were on that with one another. My

Mz. Lady P

#11. He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.

Deanna Raybourn

#12. It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Lauren Oliver

#13. At that moment, his angel whispers: 'You are only an instrument of the light. There is no reason to feel proud or to feel guilty, there are only reasons to fulfil your destiny.

Paulo Coelho

#14. She should have known from that moment; nothing could hurt them. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse might have rode into town. Gilly and Sam would have knocked Death off his pale steed and swiped War's sword for a souvenir.

Kristopher Reisz

#15. Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with "The Moment" - that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please - let it be him.

Julie James

#16. At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

Dave Eggers

#17. I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.

India.Arie

#18. We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#19. From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Giacomo Casanova

#20. Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking

Ally Carter

#21. At that moment, I have to hold myself back from bitch-slapping her!

Whoa Chambers! I shock myself with that; I have never ever thought such a thing before.

A.J. Walters

#22. [Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

Julio Cortazar

#23. The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.

Thomm Quackenbush

#24. With tears of gratitude, I told him I had never had multiple orgasms before. From that moment on, I owned him.

L.T. Graham

#25. That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?

Simon Pegg

#26. Dorian Skotos became my savior in that moment, more so than he already was. And part of me - the Dark, ugly, abhorrent side - began to resent him for it.

S.L. Jennings

#27. The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears.

Timur Vermes

#28. Try smiling quietly when you open your eyes in the morning. Or try saying out loud, "I'm happy." In that moment, the energy of happiness will gather around you. Remember that feeling and express it whenever you get the chance.

Ilchi Lee

#29. Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

Terry Eagleton

#30. Maybe it was clear that he cared about me, that he couldn't handle another risk, but in that moment the only thing that made sense was my anger. I might have even hated him for what he said about Grace, because hating him was so much easier than understanding him. He obviously felt the same way.

Lisa Roecker

#31. Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.

Travis Bradberry

#32. But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

Gordon Gould

#33. In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#34. It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Max Minghella

#35. Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.

Eliza Green

#36. The day had been a bag of pissed off cats, and I wasn't feeling particularly good about myself at that moment.

J.P. Sloan

#37. That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

Francesco Clemente

#38. I suppose there's a time in life when a garden of roses and lavender fails to blind a girl to the true shabbiness of a place. I myself had not reached that moment of clarity.

Katie Crouch

#39. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Lisa See

#40. In photography there is no meantime. There was just that moment and now there's this moment and in between there is nothing. Photography, in a way, is the negation of chronology.

Geoff Dyer

#41. Madeleine was enraptured by Garrison's tan complexion, which greatly differed from the pale boys of London. It wasn't actually the boys' fault, as the whole of the United Kingdom was under a cloud for much of the year. But at that moment, Madeleine decided that boys, like bread, were better toasted.

Gitty Daneshvari

#42. And Shalhassan of Cathal realized in that moment, standing between the fair brother and the dark, that he was not going to lead this war after all.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#43. 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

#44. Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare.

Shannon Hale

#45. Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.

Richard Ashcroft

#46. There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment ...

Nancy Mitford

#47. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Tom Stoppard

#48. Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.

Niall Williams

#49. In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but I think from God, or whoever is in charge, I got you.

Debra Anastasia

#50. And, at that moment, it dawned on me. I was one of those people. The people that I detested. The jobless people that you see all of the time. The people that make you wonder.

Scott Hildreth

#51. Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

Paul Auster

#52. Initially when our foundations are rocked, when we lose our external security, we feel very fragile. In that moment, we have a choice. Am I the Phoenix and rise from the ashes or do I just keep wallowing in the ashes?

Isha Judd

#53. I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#54. OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth.

Nick Flynn

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. recognizing in that moment that there were some things we are meant to keep for ourselves, too precious to share with others. She

Hala Alyan

#58. It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

Michael Weisskopf

#59. 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

#60. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.

Myself

#61. At that moment I knew without a doubt that God himself was speaking to me. He cared. He was there. He came to help even when I could not call out loud or explain my fear in words.

Catherine Lawton

#62. If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

Deval Patrick

#63. I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. [ ... ] And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me again - unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.

James Baldwin

#64. You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.

Kiera Cass

#65. Ms. Ginsberg. I wonder if you can help me. I have a legal question," Felicity Mason said. Great. I hated giving out free legal advice at parties, but at that moment, I would have drafted her will in crayon on a cocktail napkin to get away from Cole.

N.M. Silber

#66. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

Frederick Buechner

#67. Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

Sade Adu

#68. In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.
Like a perfect state of balance.

Tim Relf

#69. Barnett says he realized several things in that moment: the need for humility, the importance of remembering that each of us can learn from anyone and that the dismissed symptom can be the key.

Clifton K. Meador

#70. As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

Katie Ashley

#71. Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

George Alexiou

#72. It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.

Maria Sharapova

#73. I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.

Susan Wojcicki

#74. Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Suzanne Farrell

#75. In that moment, I wish my existence were as simple as being set on fire and exploding in the sky.

Adam Silvera

#76. 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

#77. It always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

Felicia Day

#78. Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, - the most terrible fear a man can experience, - I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

Jack London

#79. Her face. And she smiling. For a moment, just that moment, you would have thought it was May morning.

Angela Carter

#80. As I lifted her up in my arms, my heart racing with delight;
I knew in that moment, my bookmark had found a new home for a night;

Ray

#81. She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation

Mitch Albom

#82. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.

Walter Pater

#83. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on ... it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it 'Jumping the Shark.' From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.

Jon Hein

#84. 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

#85. I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

Jojo Moyes

#86. At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.

Jennifer Paynter

#87. Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

Robert Carlyle

#88. Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

H.L. Mencken

#89. The Queen held up her hands for silence. At that moment, Javel knew for certain that she truly was the Queen, though he never knew why or how he knew.

Erika Johansen

#90. I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.

Andie MacDowell

#91. 1617I swear in that moment we were infinite

Stephen Chbosky

#92. The truth is that you have to fight your way through brutal, ugly realities in order to find that moment of clarity, that one slant of light or shift in emotion that yields unexpected art. That's just as true for life as it is for crime scene photography.

Maggie Ybarra

#93. Although words are the world and were the birthing of the world, there are no words to express what I felt at that moment, no words for the dimensions of my joy, for the great buoyancy that overcame my spirit, for the depth of my gratitude, for the brightness of my hope.

Dean Koontz

#94. 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

#95. I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

Lionel Messi

#96. I don't know when Tiger Lily stopped growing older; I can't pinpoint that moment. But I do know I never saw her visibly age beyond the days when she was with Peter. I like to think her growing stopped the day they were on the plateau, watching the horses.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#97. I fucking hated labels. Always had.
But maybe that was because no one had ever given me the right one.
At least, not until that moment.
Gay. Straight. Bi. None of them fit me the way mine did rolling off Henry's tongue.
Suddenly, it was the only label I'd ever wanted.

Aly Martinez

#98. Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.

Billy Graham

#99. None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

Frederick Lenz

#100. Since that moment, I'd bought into the idea that isolation would ease my pain and indifference was the remedy for rejection. Clarity was quick in coming. Isolation is a prison and indifference is a lie. Neither work.

Charles Martin