Quotes About Moment

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

A dog hath a day.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

Lo que el psicoanálisis enseña es que para cada momento y cada acto existe un impacto en cadena que dura años.

La muerte es el gran juego en el que participa todo el mundo y en el que todo el mundo pierde en el silbido final. Pero el asesinato es ligeramente distinto porque es más parecido a ese momento dentro del partido cuando se decide el resultado. Nos sentamos en las gradas, sin saber cuándo se producirá ese momento preciso.

I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights—or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.

In a riot and a sculpture, [such] tactical acts of re-appropriation disrupt the circulation of bodies and information within a given terrain, if only for a moment.

So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within the larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

We like to think that every moment has potential, that there's something transcendent hidden all around, that if you'd only stop to seize the day, you could hold onto it and carry it with you. But the truth is, most of life is forgotten instantly, almost as it's happening. Chances are that even a day like today will slip through your fingers and dissolve into oblivion, washed clean by the tides.

moment of tangency a fleeting glimpse at what might have been.

No lo ví venir. Un momento antes: todo, ya sabes: Londres.

I'm alive. I'm safe. And life's a gift. Okay the gift sucks a bit at the moment, sort of like getting a pair of oversized pyjamas for Christmas when what you really wanted was an iPod, but I need to make every moment count.

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.

Time sneaks up on you like a wind shield on a bug.

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."

Now she looked offended. "What do you take me for?" "Let us pass over that question in a delicate moment.

was only as he passed Diana's carriage that he slowed

In the midst of death we are in life

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

Everything at this moment is so sublime that Jake thinks, Freeze! I want to stay right here forever. But of course, life doesn't work that way. The waves fold over themselves again and again and again, and nothing can stop them.