Quotes About Moment

So quickly, without a moment's warning, does the miraculous swerve and point to us, demanding that we be its willing servant.

A gull broods on the shore where a moment ago there were two. Softly my right hand fondles my left hand as though it were you.

the past, the future, the doorway that belongs to you and me.

He started up the ladder. When he was nearly

Everything can change in an instant.

exactly what it was like.

Lucy's gift," she said. The watch had stopped. The hands were at 2:20.

For me, hands are hard. She looks up from what she's doing. Because you're holding this disconnected hand, and it's holding you back. Cadavers occasionally effect a sort of accidental humanness that catches the medical professional off guard. I once spoke to an anatomy student who described a moment in the lab when she realized that the cadaver's arm was around her waist. It becomes difficult, under circumstances such as these, to retain one's clinical remove.

Ma viene poi il momento in cui il dolore, più che una necessità, è un lusso, e il sorriso che gioca sulle labbra non viene bandito, anche se può essere considerato sacrilego.

I had begun life with benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practise, and make myself useful to my fellow begins.

She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight.

It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cuirasses that arm the naked nerve.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, "a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now"? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself. It was like that.

I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived, and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more.

Just to live here and now—this is the true basis of human life.

You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

What you decide to do in every moment determines what will happen the rest of your life.

life is short,"42 and we should drink deeply of its goodness while we can.

In their divorces—maybe in every divorce in the history of divorces—there was a moment when things could've gone either way. "Maybe this will save us before we need saving," she said.

To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow...It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer. The brilliant man must trust he is always right even when adrift alone with his conviction.

The clash of civilizations, the conquest wars, the protracted process of colonization are all eclipsed and elided into a single symbolic moment.

May every moment of my life and of the lives of others be one of wisdom, flourishing, and inner peace!

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.