Quotes About Moment

Raymond expected them to ask why he wanted to know, or who this Luis Velez was to him. Something that showed an interest, or a connection. Then, a moment later, he wondered why he had expected it. After all these years.

And in this one perfect but probably fleeting moment . . . nothing

You have to dance especially at a time like this. That's the whole point. The dancing will bring you back into the moment. It's the dance that will save you.

Things change so fast. Life turns on a dime.

Sometimes I wonder if anything that happens to us is ever a mistake. The Zen masters say, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with this moment.

I mean . . . you just make the best of happy while you've got it, right?

says N. T. Wright, bring "two sets of ideas close together, close enough for a spark to jump, but not too close, so that the spark, in jumping, illuminates for a moment the whole area around."[12]

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.

Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.

Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing

there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.

History so often is. Especially when it's not history but is now.

and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children

He asked Clancy to stay, and as he crossed the street,

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

Pigeons on the grass alas.

But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying was hers.

My best moment in the league came when I scored my first bucket. Against Cleveland. I stole the ball and made a layup. I thought, If I never play another game again, it'll be in the record. Two points. Gilbert Arenas was in the NBA.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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.

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. Delicious Ambiguity.

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.