Quotes About Momentous

History in the making is a very uncertain thing.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

Lenin is supposed to have once said, "There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.

This was one of the few times in the century that

He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.

It was one of those events which decide the life of a man;

We had a hard life but we didn't know it...We had power....it's a power of transformation you have, when you're stuffed full of fear and eagerness - not a thing in your life can escape being momentous. A power you never think of losing because you never know you have it.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, the wrath of God, the day of wrath, etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest.

Now?" I asked. "Like, now now?" "What other kind of now is there?" Loretta asked.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

Then an astonishing thing occurred. In the early afternoon, the wind shifted

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.

Make your mark now.Make your mark today.Make your mark forever.

careful deliberation. Parties on all sides agreed that whichever way the president came down, the implications were sure to be momentous. In fact, however, even as Obama pondered the question of whether to send ten thousand or twenty thousand or thirty thousand or forty thousand additional reinforcements to Afghanistan, the actual ability to exercise choice had already passed from his hands. In essence, the president found himself in the position of a man shopping

It takes so little to change everything.

Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know, and as an architect of momentous events, Lawrence would be uniquely haunted by what he saw and did during the Great Loot.

Wolf's wits, moving now, in spite of the fumes of smoke and alcohol, with restored clarity, achieved a momentous orientation of many obscure matters.

I changed my life today. What did you do?