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Quotes About Moment

Él sabía que el porvenir era un retroceder veloz hacia la muerte y la muerte, el estado perfecto, el momento precioso en que el hombre recupera plenamente su otra memoria.
~ Elena Garro
What kind of cretins cared more about hammering out a string of inheritance than about discovering universal truths? Historians, that was what kind. They would only be happy when they had translated every miraculous book into a product of its historical moment.
~ Elif Batuman
Was this the decisive moment of my life? It felt as if the gap that had dogged me all my days was knitting together before my eyes— so that, from this point on, my life would be as coherent and meaningful as my favorite books. At the same time, I had a powerful sense of having escaped something: of having finally stepped outside of the script.
~ Elif Batuman
Was this the decisive moment of my life? It felt as if the gap that had dogged me all my days was knitting together before my eyes—so that, from this point on, my life would be as coherent and meaningful as my favorite books. At the same time, I had a powerful sense of having escaped something: of having finally stepped outside the script.
~ Elif Batuman
But to me it seemed that one had always been midway the journey of our life, and would be maybe right up until the moment of death.
~ Elif Batuman
For a moment it felt like we weren't in the Danube at all but in the river of time, and everyone was at a different point, though in another sense we were all here at once.
~ Elif Batuman
Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.
~ Anthony Liccione
One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.
~ Anthony Liccione
One moment in the sun is worth a lifetime in the rain.
~ Anthony Paolucci
Music structures time. By imposing order, music ensures that the emotions aroused by a particular event peak at the same moment.
~ Anthony Storr
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.
~ Antoine Wilson
As long as you're better at it than skating...," Anna said and stood up too. She wanted to say more, but that wasn't possible because he was kissing her. Reasonable Anna wanted to draw back the danger of touch. But unreasonable Anna welcomed the kiss like happiness. Maybe, she thought, it's better to take these moments when you get them - there might not be too many in life.
~ Antonia Michaelis
When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust
~ Antonia Michaelis
Cuando le digo al momento fugaz ... permanece por un tiempo, eres tan precioso.
~ Antonia Michaelis
Anyone who worked with him will recall the moment when his face softened into a knowing smile. It was the moment he thought he had the answer. That smile was the same smile he wore when he wrote an opinion that wrote itself. He loved the truth, and his smile betrayed the peace and joy he found in its pursuit.
~ Antonin Scalia
What does one day matter! Yesterday stands poised to face tomorrow, tomorrow faces the infinite:" -from "The Iberian God
~ Antonio Machado
Hoy es siempre todavía, toda la vida es ahora. Y ahora, ahora es el momento de cumplir las promesas que nos hicimos. Porque ayer no lo hicimos, porque mañana es tarde. Ahora.
~ Antonio Machado
Hoy es siempre todavía.
~ Antonio Machado
He wasn't asking for a lasting future without distress, only a moment to look at her, hear her voice.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
~ Antonio Porchia
My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
~ Antonio Porchia
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
~ Antonio Porchia
My bits of time play with eternity.
~ Antonio Porchia