Quotes About Moment

Your whole life boils down to a moment that will take 20-40 seconds. How crazy is that? And it's every four years. I wouldn't tell myself that during the meet, but it's terrifying. A lot of it boils down to a very precise moment in the universe, and that just happens to be the Olympics.

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.

Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either in the unknown future that you're working toward, or you're in the past that becomes a little abstract.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark!

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

If you think you can kiss her, you probably could have ten minutes ago.

When is now.

A blunt arrow in the air has greater potential to strike than a sharp one in a quiver.

She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.