Quotes About Momentous

They're seeing each other for the first time, two complete strangers, unable to take their eyes off each other. It is the moment his life splits; who he was before he met her and who becomes after.

All a man has in the world is the now, the day and the hour where he is, because tomorrow is an entirely different world.

The first president I met was L. B. J.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

Suddenly, I see it. A flaming piece of rock hurtling through the atmosphere. Oh my god. I'm the fucking asteroid.

Falsehood, ingratitude, injustice, the puerility of the ends which we ourselves look upon as great and momentous… these all so contradict the idea of what men might be if they only would, and are so at variance with our active wish to see them better, that, to avoid hating where one cannot love, it seems but a slight sacrifice to forego all the joys of fellowship with our kind.

In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable.

Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.

Selma was the turning point.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

A final in Berlin is always something special.

The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment

One would suppose that people living through the beginning of WWII had an inkling that something momentous was taking place. Not at all.*

It felt... momentous, he said. It felt important. It felt - I felt - filled with wonderful purpose. I want to feel that again.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

It was going to be one of those days that in appearance are like all the rest, inoffensive like the rest, but one on which a very faint stroke suddenly changes the course of our life and moves it into a new period.

That's because every day is the only day,

The present is an eternal now.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Think of that — what little things change the world's history...

But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything.