Quotes About Moment

Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling...

Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary—she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.

Just as that moment her torn heart swelled within her.

air. I am still holding the scissors, pointing

there are only a few times in life when you get to test everything you've got—when

It had all happened in that moment, when he'd met her eyes and, like a mystic, seemed to see her past and future. Her past was haunting, marked by bottomless wounds, and the future was terrifying because it included him.

The way Carl's face lit up just then made Elizabeth realize that their brief encounter was probably one of the happiest moments of his life. How sad for him, she thought, her heart beginning to go out to this pitiable man.

Let me digress a moment to talk about beginnings. How much simpler life would be if we were wise enough to stop at the first blush of romance, the start of a business transaction or a casual friendship. If we knew enough to pause and think: this is as good as it gets. Everything will go downhill from this moment on. So once again our instincts are the opposite of what they should be, propelling us forward exactly when they should be holding us back.

She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? What has this god of yours ever really done for you? She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. Everything.

Claude saw the orchestra. Mr. Dove came up behind him. Together, they waited a moment. Then, briskly, Claude stepped forward into the light.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

We have eternity, beloved. You may have eternity. I have only now. But this is eternity.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Beginnings are such delicate times.

In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.

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

We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

We know this moment of supreme power contained Failure. There can only be one answer. That completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time.