Quotes About Moment

Somehow Charlie looked so good in that moment, putting on his jacket. Saul clasped him tight before he could get away. The weight of the man in his arms. The feel of Charlie's rough shave that he loved so much. The tart surprise of Charlie's lip balm against his cheek. Held him for an extra moment, trying to preserve all of it, as a bulwark against whatever had just happened. Then, too soon, Charlie was gone, out the door, into the night, headed for the boat.

The enormity of this experience combined with the heartbeat and the crescendo of sound from its ceaseless writing to fill me up until I had no room left. This moment, which I might have been waiting for my entire life all unknowing—this moment of an encounter with the most beautiful, the most terrible thing I might ever experience—was beyond me.

When I saw those hundreds of journals I felt for a long moment that I had become that old biologist after all. That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you from the outside in, forcing you to live in it's reality.

Moss the shape of Grayson, all around Grayson, covering Grayson like a second skin. Showing, kiss by kiss, the beauty of Grayson to Grayson, who had never thought herself beautiful. That she was beautiful. All of Moss kissing all of her and Grayson seeing herself through Moss's eyes. Reborn in that moment.

You tell yourself this is no less or more real than bowling at Chipper's.[...] That this moment is the same as every other moment, that it makes no difference to the atoms, to the air, to the creature whose walls breathe all around you.

The fall took forever. The fall took no time at all.

I knew it for an hour on the autobahn, under a gray Rhenish sky, and forgot it in your arms.

Perhaps so many journals had piled up in the lighthouse because on some level most came, in time, to recognize the futility of language. Not just in Area X but against the rightness of the lived-in moment, the instant of touch, of connection for which words were such a sorrowful disappointment, so inadequate an expression of both the finite and the infinite.

There are times in world history when it is far wiser to act than to hesitate," and "there is some risk involved in action—there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

One Toyota executive stated the sentiment well, "Team members are the only appreciating asset we have. Everything else starts depreciating from the moment we buy it.

I wish slitting the wrist of the clock would let this moment last forever – your tongue so deep in my ear it feels like a paintbrush, coating the dark, peeling walls inside my head with a carmine veneer.

I'm just a girl Jake" "I think you're that, and much, much more." Another long moment. Lily found herself returning his smile, finding her own sense of knowing. And suddenly she felt at ease, a sense of mysterious calm.

A moment in the sky, forever in the heart.

I glanced at Cole and he gave me this weird sort of smirk. I looked away quickly.

The two men hug while Kyle and I observe them in their natural habitat.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Now is where the action happens.

Every single moment offers countless opportunities to recognize and embrace gratitude as well as reasons to bitch and moan, and you have the glorious opportunity to choose which you will allow to shape your reality.

Tonight I had wrought magic powerful enough to have drawn the attention of a goddess. In that moment, though, I was certain of one thing: Of all the magic I possessed, none of it could begin to compare to the magic he and I created together.

Sure," she answered. "Just give me a minute." A minute to jump to my death off my balcony.

We lived a dot-to-dot life, never thinking too much about the future.

Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.