Quotes About Moment

Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now.

I wasn't interested in trying to explain how the measure of one's life finally reduces itself to the possession of the moment, then the moment after that, moving through each of them in sequence from day to day, letting go of yesterday and asking nothing from the future except to be there for it.

There are events you witness, or in which you participate, that forever remain sacrosanct and inviolate in memory, no matter how painful that memory is, because of the cost that you or others paid in order to be there in that moment when the camera lens clicked shut.

crowd again. "I think we blew an opportunity. But maybe

There was an art to learning what individuals were made of, to analyzing how they were put together, and then—when the moment was right—lining them up just so and driving the point home, breaking them along predicted lines; faceting them like one of Galen's kybers. Obitt one way, Tarkin the other.

Tarkin had lost all sense of how long he had been standing in the viewport bay when Vader's fury brought him back to the moment. "This freighter is to be tractored aboard the Executrix for a thorough inspection. The crew is to be kept in detention until I'm through interrogating them.

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.

As he sat before the elderly Irishman in his boxcar, the moment of realization suddenly tumbled into Elefante's consciousness with startling efficiency, landing on his insides with a heaviness that felt like a blacksmith's hammer falling on an anvil.

He leaned on the church wall and gave his heart a moment to catch itself.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn't a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. "Well, that'll simplify things," Fang said.

Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wraped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. ZOMG, I heard Nudge whisper.

I won't lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we'd come to New York.

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

Because today after all, is all we knew.

You know the pop is coming, but damn if it don't always surprise you.

So let's not ruin this by thinking too much about tomorrow. Don't make a wonderful weekend into a bad Monday.

Justine pulled her Jag over to the side of the road and stared out at the landscape. I twirled the dial on her police band radio until the signal was clear. She opened her thermos, passed it over to me. I took a sip. The coffee was black, unsugared. That's the way Justine liked just about everything: straight up, no bullshit.

Jacob didn't say "Seize the day," he said "Seize what's been handed you." Make smart decisions. Make decisions because—he said it again—life is a temporary situation.

pique. What was done was done. Junie had asked for coffee

The haughtiness suddenly fell from Hamster's face. He looked at us fearfully for a long second.

The right inspiration, [...]. That's the beauty of creation and imagination. Remaining open to what comes. The more seasoned the artist, the more capable he is of responding in the moment.

was thinking it might be a perfect moment for Jeanne to realize that she was meant to be my girlfriend

during our ride. As we exited, a bus