The Moments Quotes

#1. On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

Spike Jonze

#2. Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"

David Hare

#4. But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough- more than enough, even- just to be there.
~Ruby, pg 399

Sarah Dessen

#5. I wanted a feeling of accumulation. I really wanted the moments to add up because they do add up. I wanted to come up with a strategy that would allow these moments to accumulate in the reader's body in a way that they do accumulate in the body.

Claudia Rankine

#6. When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often been because I've been put in the head of one of the characters.

Alastair Reynolds

#7. The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of the moments. I wanted the book, as much as the book could do this, to communicate that feeling. The feeling of saturation. Of being full up. I wanted it to be simulacra.

Claudia Rankine

#8. In the end, it's only the moments that we have.

Susan Vreeland

#9. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation.

Gudjon Bergmann

#11. The talents lost
the moments run
To waste
the sins of act, of thought,
Ten thousand deeds of folly done,
And countless virtues cherish'd not.

John Bowring

#12. Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still?

Kelly Long

#13. I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away ...

Gabe A. Lopez

#14. Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#15. We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#16. You will regret the moments you didn't let love in a hell of a lot more than the moments you did.

Courtney Giardina

#17. The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such a high price. What I want are the moments I will never have. The warm ones. The living ones.

Isaac Marion

#18. They have both loved you with a child's love, and now a man's. It is the child's love that holds you together ... cemented by the moments you shared with them that they treasure most.

A.G. Howard

#19. I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

Dana Spiotta

#20. In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Ann Voskamp

#21. SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative.

Jan Carlzon

#22. When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

Greg Boyle

#23. What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Stephan Jenkins

#24. Enjoy the Moments

Annie Quinn

#25. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in. These things I still have, I remind myself - and shall have until I leave them.

Beryl Markham

#26. In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

#27. Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

Ovid

#28. Seize the moments that are before you instead of planning for future moments that get lost in the abyss of time.

Orly Wahba

#29. And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I write to rewrite the moments I've lived over in a way that makes more sense to me. I write the moments to heal. I write the moments I hope never happen. And I write the moments I hope will happen.

R.B. O'Brien

#30. I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World ...
It's a day that never dies.

Kevin Brooks

#32. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

#33. As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

Andie MacDowell

#34. The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

Kedar Joshi

#35. What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

Jodi Picoult

#36. Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.

Peter V. Brett

#37. You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down.
-Savitar

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#38. Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

Warsan Shire

#39. I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

Brie Larson

#40. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart. Only in the moments of pain, do we begin to empathize with humankind. Only when you are lost, you will find new meaning. Float on.

Forrest Curran

#41. Do you realize that after eminent success in God's work, there is more need for prayer than when we are at the foothills of a struggle for survival? The moments of victory and success are more dangerous than moments of darkness and depression.

Oswald Chambers

#42. The moments of the class must belong to the student - not the students, but to the very undivided student. You don't teach a class. You teach a student.

Ken Bain

#43. Feel your body expanding as you breathe: that is where we live, in the moments between each inhalation and exhalation.

Tan Twan Eng

#44. I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

Anna Godbersen

#45. I love the moments i lost a little faith, spirit would always remind me; it was just a bad day.

Nikki Rowe

#46. You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

Luke Edison

#47. Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

Ann Voskamp

#48. Life is crazy. You travel and you're busy and there's so much going on that it's important to have the moments where you can breathe and you can just be present with the person or the people that you're there with.

Alexander Skarsgard

#49. One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#50. A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

Nicholas Sparks

#51. There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

Aimee Bender

#52. My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

Dan Howell

#53. -The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

Nora Roberts

#54. In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.

Matt De La Pena

#55. I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together

Sapan Saxena

#56. The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

Frederick Buechner

#57. I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.

Anderson Cooper

#58. So much of what was best in life went unnoticed in the moments you had it.

Joe Hill

#59. ... [Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.

Richard Linklater

#60. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks.

Daniel Keyes

#61. Life is about the moments: Don't wait for them, create them!

Tony Robbins

#62. In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there.

Emery Lord

#63. It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning.

Steven Redhead

#64. When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#65. There are handful of moments in your life when you'll be challenged to choose between what you really want and what you believe is possible. These are the moments which will shape both your destiny AND who you will become.

Seth Czerepak

#66. Love's alchemical power is nevermore clear than in the moments when we least expect it to grace our lives; for love transforms, love transcends, love awakens.

Atalina Wright

#67. The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life.

Paulo Coelho

#68. Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.

Anna Glazebrook

#69. You will have given another moment to the moment you are living and to the moments you are going to live; you have perverted time; you have opened a forbidden field to what happened to you before.

Carlos Fuentes

#70. When you get to the end of your life, you will treasure the moments when you decided to push past fear and try something new.

Jonathan Milligan

#71. Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Antonin Artaud

#72. As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.

Frederick Lenz

#73. I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.

Lena Dunham

#74. These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.

Nathan Filer

#75. To ache from the knowledge that I may never hold you again - to count the moments, like grains of sand, while we were parted only to escape the sky and find that you still only know me as a boy from school ...

Amy A. Bartol

#76. I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.

Tom Hanks

#77. The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

Amanda Lindhout

#78. I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Ann Voskamp

#79. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#80. We go through life and don't pay attention to God even when he's yelling. Then there are the moments you never expect and can't avoid. It is at those times when you can hear him ever so clearly; even when he's whispering.

Benjamin J. Carey

#81. Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

Young-Ha Kim

#82. To write a book, we must write with our whole life, not just during the moments we are sitting at our desk. When writing a book or an article, we know that our words will affect many other people. We do not have the right just to express our own suffering if it brings suffering to others.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#83. When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

Charles Martin

#84. I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord's table.

Charles Spurgeon

#85. All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

Patricia MacLachlan

#86. Live every day like it's your last. Treasure the moments you have, and make sure you make them count.

Nicole Reed

#87. There are moments in life that feel so perfect and so real. These are the moments that you live for. The moments you never want to end.

Alysha Speer

#88. It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

Nan Fairbrother

#89. I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

Fred Seibert

#90. In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder:
to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet
till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans
stir the aspects of life waiting within us.

Mark Nepo

#91. It's the moments of our life that shape us.

Tony Robbins

#92. Lingering flashes from the past are the moments you truly lived and want to live again.

Moonish Sood

#93. No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#94. There's this small flicker in time when you're looking down the barrel of a gun and instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it's all the moments you missed out on.

Melyssa Winchester

#95. I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, "How can I see the best in this situation?" Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.

Zooey Deschanel

#96. Light falls upon a dew drop; rewarding all who are blessed to witness the moments of its glisten.

Truth Devour

#97. It was one of the moments you stay in, to hell with all the troubles of before and after. The sky is blue and the dead are coming back. Later in the afternoon, with sad resignation, the county fair bares its breasts.

Denis Johnson

#98. I live for the moments that won't die in my memory.

Jenim Dibie

#99. Agony. There was no other word for it, not just the pain but the craving. The bone-deep knowledge that she'd die without the drugs, the moments where she would have done anything to end the torment.

Kit Rocha

#100. My whole thing is quality of life ... It must always be easy and low-maintenance and stress-free, and that means not trying to fit too much in. I don't ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.

Ginnifer Goodwin