Quotes About Moment

What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.

Life is always at some turning point.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; then let it come.

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It is always thus, impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

The present will not long endure.

Every dog must have his day.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

Delay not to seize the hour!

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

Let us live, while we are alive!

Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government, the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.