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Quotes About Moment

One day,I was already old, a man came up to me in the street.
~ Marguerite Duras
They are neither happy nor unhappy. Their union is constructed upon indifference, in a way which is general and which they apprehend moment by moment, a union from which all preference is excluded. They are together, two trains which meet and pass, around them the landscape, sensuous and lushly green, is the same, they see it, they are not alone.
~ Marguerite Duras
bak???yoruz. bak??maz oluyoruz sonra.
~ Marguerite Duras
tarifsiz bir fark, uykunun fark?, onlar? daha birkaç saatliÄŸine birbirinden ay?r?yordu sonra.
~ Marguerite Duras
Sólo me diferencio de los muertos en que me está dado asfixiarme todavía un momento más.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?
~ Marian Keyes
Life was all about timing.
~ Marian Keyes
Maar wie denkt, zal niets ervaren, dat is bekend. Onze zintuigen laten zich net commanderen. De beleving is er alleen voor degene die in staat is te zijn als een kind, hier, op dit moment, open en zonder verwachtingen.
~ Marianne Fredriksson
The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.
~ Marianne Williamson
The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment; God's creation holds nothing against us.
~ Marianne Williamson
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
~ Marianne Williamson
The only point where eternity meets time is in the present.
~ Marianne Williamson
Agate, population 70, is one of those towns that people describe as 'blink and you'll miss it.' Lois A. Engel loved living in the blink.
~ Marilyn Johnson
You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It is like a voice heard from another room, singing for the pleasure of the song, and then you know it, too, and through you it moves by accident and necessity down generations. Then, why singing? Why pleasure in it? And why the blessing of the moment when another voice is heard, dreaming to itself?
~ Marilynne Robinson
Again, all any heart has ever said, and just as the word is said the moment is gone, so there is not even any sort of promise in it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I do believe that we stand at a threshold, as Bonhoeffer did, and that the example of his life obliges me to speak about the gravity of our historical moment as I see it, in the knowledge that no society is at any time immune to moral catastrophe.
~ Marilynne Robinson
A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.     Once
~ Marilynne Robinson
At this very moment I feel a kind of loving grief for you as you read this, because I do not know you, and because you have grown up fatherless, you poor child...You are drawing those terrible little pictures that you will bring me to admire, and which I will admire because I have not the heart to say one word that you might remember against me.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Vous ne pouvez jamais savoir quand vous voyez quelqu'un pour la dernière fois.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules.
~ Mario Batali