Quotes About Moment

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

That cloud, however, blossomed just for minutes And when I gazed up, faded in the wind.

But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.

I wonder if maybe death does that -- turns strangers into friends for a few minutes, or an hour, or maybe even a whole day.

Her laughter was a wondrous, liquid thing that splashed across my face, over the toes of my shoes, and into the grass.

Herodotus, the 'Father of History', records the moment – and you can hear the emotion in his voice as he does so, a mixture of horror and awe: Then Kleisthenes took into his faction the common people.19

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

But however fast the world was spinning, time was standing still for Celine and Oliver, held in a magic moment they would never forget.

He stood back smiling while they shook hands and murmured politely, and Amelia, meeting the Dutchman's sleepy gaze, had a sudden strange feeling, as though everything had changed; that nothing would ever be the same again; that there was no one else there, only herself and this giant of a man, still staring at her.

She was surprised to feel his hand on her arm and still more surprised-almost unbelieving-to see his fingers unclasp his identification bracelet and remove it from his arm. Silently he fumbled with the bracelet and slipped it around her right wrist. with a tiny click he snapped the clasp shut. Jane gave a gasp of astonishment and turned questioning to Stan. She was wearing his identification bracelet! The silver links on her wrist were still warm from his arm

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything.

He advanced, and before Teresa could react, he snatched her up against his chest, looked down into her furious eyes, and kissed her. Really kissed her. And he did it so well and so deliciously she forgot to sock him and melted right there on the spot.

In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

Every peace-filled moment you experience brings terror to the powers of darkness.

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present.

Day to day, we forget that if the billions of years of life on Earth were scaled to a twenty-four-hour day, our settled civilizations began about a fifth of a second ago.

Barack Obama sounded a familiar note: "This is our generation's moment to save future generations from global catastrophe." Here's his opponent, John McCain, a few months later: "We and the other nations of the world must get serious about substantially

There's only now.

In that moment of revealing, one historian will write of Cleopatra, "her desire grew greater than it had been before.

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.