Moments Quotes
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.
I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.
I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.
That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.
A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.
We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.
You created this moment from what you thought and felt three days ago. What you are thinking and feeling right now will create your next moments. You cool with that?
There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'
If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
You do things other people cannot do, so just stay in the moment as you improve the other areas.
It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.
Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.
Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.
This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.
The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.
There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!
Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.
The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.