Quotes About Moment

Io non vi dico di prepararvi all'altra vita, ma di usare bene quest'unica vita che vi è data, per affrontare quando verrà, l'unica morte di cui avrete mai esperienza. E' necessario meditare prima, e molte volte, sull'arte del morire, per riuscire a farlo bene una sola volta

You spend a life seeking the Opportunity, without realizing that the decisive moment, the moment that justifies birth and death, has already passed. It will not return, but it was - full, dazzling, generous as every revelation.

Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted.

A moment later a second guard approached and whispered to him, after which he said to Lumley-Gotham, Your son wishes to see you, sir. Has he been searched? inquired Lumley-Gotham. He has been searched, said the other.

Great moments do not last in a confused and helter-skelter world. The idealist dreams how things ought to go, but they don't—there being no perfect human creatures or groups of them.

political opinions were an arsenal of weapons from which he picked up those which served his need at a certain moment of conflict. When conscientious

proceeded to clear a way to the hall. Once

And we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.

The name hung between them like a motionless pendulum, waiting for a push to set it in motion.

The choices we made, the long-forgotten decisions, the painfully unforgettable ones, are the framework of our lives, thought Alicia. All of her choices and decisions had brought her to this moment in bed with Tim. When you looked at life that way, it was hard not to blame yourself for your own unhappiness.

Bach felt the beauty and sadness of the moment. These men who defied the power of the Russian heavy artillery, these coarse, hardened soldiers who were dispirited by their lack of ammunition and tormented by vermin and hunger had all understood at once that what they needed more than anything in the world was not bread, not bandages, not ammunition, but these tiny branches twined with useless tinsel, these orphanage toys.

In real life, you only get one shot at the homicide crime scene.

El reloj del cementerio se adelanta un poco.

That day will come. But at the moment it is this day that has to be lived.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette's dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

Ninety-three was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century

Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come

Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment

One kiss, and that was everything.

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.