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Quotes About Moment

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.
~ Jonny Lee Miller
To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.
~ Pascal Mercier
Every moment is a fresh new beginning... a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the Universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.
~ Russell Brand
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
~ Brian Selznick
I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.
~ Craig Newmark
I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.
~ Neil Burger
When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
~ Alicia Keys
Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.
~ Barack Obama
I'm just looking at whatever moment I'm at, trying to tell a story that at that time feels like it needs to be told, like I want to see it and how I'm feeling in my life.
~ Daryl Wein
It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.
~ David Levithan
Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Some things are important. Others are not. Yet all would claim a mortal's attention. It falls to each of us to remain ever mindful, and thus purchase wisdom in the threading of possibilities. It is our common failing, Brys Beddict, that we are guided by our indifference to eventualities. The moment pleases, the future can await consideration.
~ Steven Erikson
If there was neither a time before nor a time after, then was not the moment of creation eternal and yet for ever instantaneous?
~ Steven Erikson
Even the gods felt close, drawn to witness all that was to come. Witness, or to seize the moment and act directly. A nudge here, a tug there, if only to appease their egos… if only to see what happens.
~ Steven Erikson
And at that instant, Ivis, so brightly painted in triumph, does the world freeze? Does time itself cease, nothing crawling on; not a single moment following in its usual tumble? But what world offers this impossibility? Only the one begat in a mind, and then raised in chains, never to be set free. The fashioning of nostalgia, my friend, imprisons us.
~ Steven Erikson
Do not flee us. Do not flee this moment, this scene. Do not confuse dislike and abhorrence with angry denial of truths you do not wish to see. I accept your horror and expect no forgiveness. But if you deny, I name you coward. And I have had my fill of cowards.
~ Steven Erikson
Exulting in the moment, witch, does not require wild dancing.
~ Steven Erikson
The Tiste Edur studied the bonecaster for a long moment, as the tears ran down his gaunt cheeks. 'I weep, Monok Ochem, because he cannot.' The bonecaster faced Onrack once more. 'Broken one, there are a lot of things you deserve ... but this mortal is not among them
~ Steven Erikson
Don't matter, now,' one said. 'We're here and here's here and that's that.
~ Steven Erikson
Hear them rattle These chains of living Bound to every moment passed Until the wreckage clamours In deafening wake And each stride trails A dirge of the lost. - House of Chains
~ Steven Erikson
Can you be nostalgic for the instant just past? Oh yes, and it's a bittersweet taste.
~ Steven Erikson
He could only nod as he tucked the scrap in his belt. He looked at the three figures before him, wishing Bult and List had been present for this, but there would be no staged goodbyes, no comfort of roles to step into. Like everything else, the moment was messy, awkward and incomplete.
~ Steven Erikson
Her grip bit into his arm.
~ Steven Erikson
only once brushing gazes with the black man leaning against the bar.
~ Steven Erikson