Quotes About Momentous

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

It looked like a clip from an action series, right before something drastic happened. Then something drastic happened.

I closed my eyes against the thought, knowing that soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and after of my life, and it would happen in one swift act that I could no more alter than the color of my eyes.

Knowing that soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and the after of my life.

Es el día mas frío de la historia. Y hoy es el día de mi nacimiento

It was the first time I had ever seen someone die, and it wasn't what I expected...I stood there waiting for something momentous to happen, for someone to say something profound, but there was nothing...I still had the childish notion that since my life was so important, all lives were so important. Since my death would be so cataclysmic, all deaths would be so cataclysmic.

The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.

I have to do it to day. It's the first day of the rest of my life. Oh. I had a day like that last week. Really? What happened? I woke up and thought, This is the first day of the rest of my life. Then what happened? I drove to work. Oh.

to capture those momentous events in print seemed as daunting to Mercy as was the triumph of the Revolution itself.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

It was a small thing, and an enormous one. In

16 August 1804 was going to be a day they would remember for the rest of their lives.

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

Hughes would later count that moment—black and blue, manacled, borne into prison on that great wave of enthusiasm—as one of the greatest in his life.

If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?

still couldn't believe that Kibii could cross the most momentous threshold of his life without my hearing a whisper of it. I scanned the area for Buller, wanting to be gone as quickly as possible, but didn't see him. I made off anyway, and had reached the edge of the ridge, readying myself for the steep descent, when I heard Kibii calling my name.