Quotes About Momentous

There are days when everything changes, and this was one of those days.

Events that come on tiptoe often change the world.

Suddenly Fermi raised his hand. "The pile has gone critical," he announced. No one present had any doubt about it.

He thought later how peculiar it was that here was probably the biggest thing in his life, and he had shrugged it off as nothing.

Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.

Philip stepped forward to whip the king. He was glad he had lived to see this. After today, he thought, the world will never be quite the same.

Early July 997

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been.

Because this is the first thing you have ever won and, like your first pair of boots, your first kiss and your first car, you'll never forget the hours of this day.

There's a perfectly good chance that this is a day you're going to remember for the rest of your life. This is the day when you got your second chance, when everything changed.

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go

Your wedding can be the most memorable day and night of your life... or just another party.

Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.

And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.ï¾  There is little reason that one can see why it should not have happened to her five years earlier, or even five later; and none, why it should have come that particular afternoon.ï¾ 

Later on, I read the end of the New Order described as being 'like sex without orgasm'. It was an unmomentous a historic moment as could be imagined - perfunctory, anti-climactic and unconvincing.

A significant moment deserves a considered prelude. Be ready.

Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously.

Around AD 1500, history made its most momentous choice, changing not only the fate of humankind, but arguably the fate of all life on earth. We call it the Scientific Revolution. It began in western Europe, a large peninsula on the western tip of Afro-Asia, which up till then played no important role in history.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.

Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.