Quotes About Moment

She is perhaps wiser than we think,' Prazek observed after making a scene of swallowing. 'This sausage mocks the pretence. But,' he added, spearing another piece, 'I am assured that it lodges in the pit of the belly, and remains silent, if not unobtrusive, until the moment of its rebirth into the world.

Such was my journey Leagues across centuries In one blink of the sun.

There is, on rare occasions, true joy, but each time that precious, startling moment then dwindles, and in each face you see a hint of sorrow—as if what was just found will now be for ever remembered as a thing lost. Can you be nostalgic for the instant just past? Oh yes, and it's a bittersweet taste.

In blessing, you purchase a moment of peace, in the one being blessed, in the one for whom blessing is asked. Perhaps it does not last, but the gift you provide, well, its value never fades

But what mattered beyond just that? This single moment, pitching headlong into the next one, over and over again, as firm and true as each step he took

The past was both dead and alive, but between them it was simply dead.

It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.

Unngh,' the Minotaur says. What he means is that every past is littered and scarred. What he means is that the present moment is the only moment that pulses, that breathes. What he means is that he himself is capable of great tenderness but has also done great harm. The Minotaur knows that sometimes mercy requires expedience. Haste. Sometimes it can't be about how much a thing hurts.

Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture.

You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like that all the time.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Live now, die later!

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Time stood still, ignored the event.

Just for a moment, I longed to succumb to the hysteria within me that was demanding admission.

Some delicacies can only be sampled once.

I'm a symbol," Tayven said. "You won't understand or accept this, I know, but if I am sacrificed, power will come from the act. Almorante himself would kill me if the moment was right, and I would sacrifice myself willingly, if it would do any good.

The moment of his fall was for closer to the present moment than millenia before.

He glanced at Aninka, his eyes alight with the kind of excitement she did not want to see.

For a moment or two I was afraid that some invisible net was closing in, tightening around me, and yet, on another level, I was relieved not to be alone.

Nothing could be more perfect than this moment, but all too soon it is gone, burning out among the stars.

At that moment, everything went utterly still, but for light shooting from jewelled throat to jewelled throat, from candelabra to chandelier.

For a few moments the pair of them shared a single terror; a look passed between them.