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Quotes About Moment

only someone had been there to remind him that his life, someday, would be over and he should pay attention and enjoy while he could.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Kovo looked at the boy for a long moment, misery etched in his face. Then, with a shimmering flash and a popping sound, the ape vanished.
~ Eliot Schrefer
A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
~ Eliot Spitzer
I lean in quickly and kiss him. "We may," I say.
~ Elise Allen
Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other's lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand leaves us a new canvas with each wave.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
This life's a dream, a fleeting show!' no indeed. That isn't my 'doxy.' I don't think that nothing is worth doing, but that everything is worth doing — everything good, of course — and that everything which does good for a moment does good for ever, in art as well as in morals.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She leaned into the embrace for a long, quiet moment, listening to the pounding of his heart.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In a moment, the heat would touch him. Kit braced himself for the pain, tilting his chin down to this chest and imagining that his weight flowed like water through his pelvis and down his legs, anchoring him to the floor.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was almost a clean hate, for a moment, untainted by her own failures.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She was not prepared for Mallory to pull away before Rien thought the kiss was half finished, quickly nipping at Rien's lower lip and then pressing a finger against it. And then it was dark eyes, brown and transparent as coffee, with green and amber flecks swimming under the surface of Mallory's breath across her mouth.
~ Elizabeth Bear
For a moment, they sat together, the understanding between them almost big enough to fill that space.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A voice for a moment he mistook for his own defiant tones, the spiked irony he saved for moments of abject vulnerability.
~ Elizabeth Bear
They laughed every time they accidentally looked at each other.
~ Elizabeth Bear
For a moment, Garrett permitted herself a frown at the waste of talent, though she could not say if it was because of the artistry was wasted on a maid, or because an artist was wasted as one.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sebastien was already leaning in, drawn by the enticing heat of blood, when he recollected himself and jerked back.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Kit felt the heavy lift and drop of the Prince's shoulders, the swing of his cloak, and spared a moment for his own patchwork cloak.
~ Elizabeth Bear
No matter what kind of nonsense is going on around you, the first moment of stepping out of a vehicle into space is always awe-inspiring, the more so here in the Core than elsewhere.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The cosmic irony of the moment didn't elude him.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I had a moment's respect for this wily silce of code.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The moment is stillness, utter and heartless, and that stillness continus when I step into the water again and wade back to shore, sodden trouser cuffs, clinging to my ankles.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She did not look down in time to avoid the warmth of his smile.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Will. A name that still had the power to stop his breath. Aye, and i'd traffic with Hell for thee all over again, for a moment such as this.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Transformation is now. Embrace this moment when you feel frustrated or uncertain and be the change right now. You don't have to wait. What you do today matters. It makes a difference. Everything you do makes a difference.
~ Elizabeth Benton
But happiness, fleeting by nature, is often savored only after it has flown.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell