Moments Quotes

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

I don't get caught up in the moment.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

The pressure is always there... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

The moment you get emotionally involved with your goal, it instantly and automatically begins to move into physical form.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

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

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

When you just don't think you can, keep going! Getting through those weak moments is how you become stronger.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.