Best Quotes About Moment (Top 61)
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anais Nin
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire
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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk
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It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
Claude Monet
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
Sappho
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
Dave Barry
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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt
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Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Eminem
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
Katherine Mansfield
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There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
Dirk Benedict
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara de Angelis
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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara de Angelis
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Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
Charles W. Chesnutt
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I'm thankful for every moment.
Al Green
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells
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[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.
Countee Cullen
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Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent
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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
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Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
Cavett Robert
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
Norman Mailer
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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Dorothea Brande
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara de Angelis
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
Evan Davis
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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
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The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
Burt Reynolds
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I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.
Alexis Bledel
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
Christopher Fry
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
Jack Kornfield
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
Robertson Davies
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I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
Ron Atkinson
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It's the moment you think you can't, that you can
Celine Dion
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Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
William Saroyan
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But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
William Allen Butler
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I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.
Ayumi Hamasaki
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The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny the Elder
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Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
William Shakespeare
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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment
Willis Player
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That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies.
Floyd Abrams
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We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone " its value is incontestable.
Joyce Carol Oates