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Quotes About Moment

a horror more intense than pain, and visited it upon them in the moment of truth.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
He could not turn back the clock a second, nor could he ever push it forward a second, so that what happened had to happen.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Once, for three hundred crowns, I became a saint for an instant: I bought up all the goldfinches, then released them from my hand. Oh, what a feeling when a terrified little bird flies from your palm to freedom!
~ Bohumil Hrabal
We all have a past. We all have a future. But all we really have is right now. You can change your destiny in one moment, if only you refuse to do what you once did.
~ Bonnie Hearn Hill
that we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying. That felt like the right kind of fuck-you to the universe that a great punk rock song requires.
~ Bono
Pop was to be popular music. Contemporary. Like Andy Warhol's take on news events and celebrity. The big questions right next to the little ones. Our attempt to make the instant eternal. A series of Polaroids of this moment. To keep forever.
~ Bono
The pain and suffering of this world are only the images of gloom, and they are only real in the moment when the spark identifies itself with the shell of darkness. - Book of Consolation, 8.15
~ Book of Consolation
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
~ Boris Pasternak
She'd observed this before: how -- ironically -- it took death to make one feel momentarily alive, truly present, minute to minute.
~ Brad Kessler
precipitously,
~ Brad Stone
Quando uma empresa formula uma ideia, o processo é caótico. Não há um momento do tipo 'ahá'", disse Bezos.
~ Brad Stone
Ein paar Sekunden lang herrschte Totenstille. Es war so leise, als würden selbst die Möbel die Luft anhalten.
~ Harlan Coben
Loren held up her identification. "I'm Investigator Loren Muse from the Essex County prosecutor's office. I'd like a moment of your time." Marsha Hunter blinked, confused. "What's this about?" Loren tried a disarming smile. "Could I come in a moment?" "Oh, yes. Of course." She
~ Harlan Coben
For a moment the words did not register. Grace just stood there, unable to move. It wasn't that she hadn't heard him—she had—but his words were so out of context, so out of place coming from this stranger's lips, that her brain could not really comprehend the significance. At
~ Harlan Coben
We move to the dance floor. We face each other. She puts one hand on my shoulder and the other hand in mine. We start to dance. At some point Ema moves closer. She rests her head on my shoulder. I barely move. I barely breath. I just want this moment to last.
~ Harlan Coben
Myron stopped himself from saying any more. He had sounded asinine enough. He just needed a moment or two to gather himself, to figure out what the next step should be. Your
~ Harlan Coben
You are looking at your child and it is an ordinary moment, not like they are onstage or hitting a winning shot, just sitting there and you look at them and you know that they are your whole life and that moves you and scares you and makes you want to stop time.
~ Harlan Coben
Sitting in this house now, time zoomed in and out, toying the way it does, making something far away suddenly appear right over your shoulder. Guy
~ Harlan Coben
Welche Stimmen sie von diesem Augenblick an auch immer hören würde, es würden nicht die geprügelter Hunde sein, sondern sie würden starken, fleischfressenden Bestien gehören.
~ Harlan Ellison
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
~ Harold Bloom
Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.
~ Harold Bloom
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
~ Harold Bloom
But no opposition grumbling could spoil the moment for the new president-elect. He donned his overcoat, thanked the telegraph operators for their hard work and hospitality, and stuffed the final dispatch from New York into his pocket as a souvenir. It was about time, he announced to one and all, that he "went home and told the news to a tired woman who was sitting up for him.
~ Harold Holzer
YaÅŸam?n?n tek huzurlu dakikalar? sabah gözlerini ilk açt??? anla bilincini tam olarak toparlad??? an aras?nda geçen o k?sac?k süreydi; sonunda uyan?p günün capcanl? kabusuna ad?m atmadan önceki o birkaç saniye.
~ Harper Lee