Quotes About Moment

What his humanism says to us is that the human subject should stand apart from his or her circumstances emotionally and intellectually, even as he or she experiences the flux of Fortuna—the Chaucerian "job" writ large in a life—and the mesmerizing power of the moment. Only in this can we find our voice.

The source of all life warms the living for a moment, holding them briefly before they go back to wasting their lives.

In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.

Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcher's knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

the moment when you stop has great dramatic import. What comes last sticks in the mind as a kind of exclamation point. There is no better time to stop and walk away than after a victory.... As lawyers say of cross-examination, Always stop with a victory.

The Laws of Human Nature, 17: Seize the Historical Moment—The Law of Generational Myopia

Knowledge, experience, and theory have limitations: no amount of thinking in advance can prepare you for the chaos of life, for the infinite possibilities of the moment.

Un verso [de un poema] quizá pueda llevarnos horas; pero si no parece una inspiración del momento, todo el trabajo habrá sido en vano. LA MALDICIÓN DE ADÁN, WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, 1865-1939

As long as war has not begun, there is always hope that it may be prevented, and you know that I am going to work for peace to the last moment. Goodnight.

By this time it was after half past three. The winter light was fading. Beyond

Nothing has happened until it happens

Someone had to record this. He couldn't spend the entire time worrying about her. So, he searched his mind for the right words to describe what he was seeing. He set aside words like "epic" and "momentous." They were nearly worn out with overuse.

The Dark One," Lan said, "cannot be defeated without chancing risks. But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten.

The wave that has passed cannot be called back.

La Rueda teje según sus designios y en su momento. La paciencia es una virtud que debe aprenderse, pero todos debemos estar dispuestos a aceptar el cambio en un instante.

The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

One deep breath makes me ready for the next one and then the next one and with each deep breath I feel a little readier until I jump out of bed and pull up the shade

Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.