Quotes About Moment

The past is gone. The future is a fantasy. There is only the breath, the moment.

My husband used to say, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Merri-Lee ripped herself away and scampered for her YSL heels. She slid

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

The corner was just ahead.

Gabriel had been bathed and was lying, for the moment, hugging his hippo placidly in the small crib that had replaced the basket

Deer Park! Oh, I wish we could stop here, just for a little while!

Jonas stood for a moment beside his bike, startled. It had happened again: the thing that he thought of now as "seeing beyond." This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting indescribable change. As he looked up and toward her going through the door, it happened; she changed. Actually, Jonas thought, trying to recreate it in his mind, it wasn't Fiona in her entirety. It seemed to be just her hair. And just for that flickering instant.

Wait. He paused, and she held out a hand to him. His thick fingers engulfed her tapering ones; his skin was warm and dry, and scorched her. Before we go pick up poor Lieutenant Illyan again... He took her in his arms, and they kissed, for the first time, for a long time. Oh, she muttered after. Perhaps that was a mistake. It hurts so much when you stop. Well, let me... his hand stroked her hair, gently, then desperately wrapped itself in a shimmering coil; they kissed again.

Between one breath and the next, the vision took him. It came not as a chain of reason, more words words words, but as a blinding image, all complete in its first moment, inherent, holistic, gestalt, inspired. Every hour of his life from now on would be but the linear exploration of its fullness.

I admit, he has far too much on his mind at the moment. Suppressed panic turns him into a prick every time; it's what he does instead of running in circles screaming. A way of coping, I suppose.

For a brief, self-indulgent moment, Ingrey pictured himself drawing his steel and beheading his servant. Alas, the hall was too narrow for such a swing to be executed properly. He gave over the vision with a long sigh and levered himself to his feet.

Miles decided he would have to point it out to his cousin at some appropriate moment, preferably when Ivan's mouth was full.

It was wonderful to imagine letting go one's guard, if only for a moment. To pretend that safety was something another could give as a gift.

He dropped them with an impressive thump upon one of the little tables and favored both new pupils with a deliberately sinister smile. If this was to be anything like training young soldiers, young horses, or young hawks, the key was to take the initiative from the first moment, and keep it thereafter. He could be as hollow as a drum, so long as he was as loud.

Across the distance between them, Bree's gaze met Mikkel's, and she did not blink.

And for one precious moment out of time, Anna knew what it meant to belong

I do not know who the two old men were or what any of them were doing, but there are moments when it is clearly time to go, and I left them there and then.

it's the way we respond to such gifts that is up to us. We decide if our past hurts and pains are going to overshadow what is occurring right this moment.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day,' and this is one of the times I'm right.

Non aver paura di fermarti un istante a pensare.

I can't believe I just asked you to hold my hand,' said Ira, but Mike had already taken it.

Then a wayward glance from a lass, a moment of red, bursting fury from a stranger, a blow given and a blow returned, and all that might have been my life vanished like a fog upon the fens beneath a summer sun.

in a mighty hurry—both of 'em.