Quotes About Moment

And it might also be that God had nothing to do with it, that it was just the moment that it would have happened anyway, whether she prayed or not.

If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment.

Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage.

Still, an agility lurks underneath, a wiry surprise, as if he might burst away from the limp at any moment and leave it abandoned behind him.

He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then the ease away from it.

The wind surged in a roar, then died down like it was pondering some heavy shit, then started back up like before.

The only interesting thing, said François Mitterrand, is to live.

The detectives slide back on the digital timeline to the moment when Mendelssohn steps out into the snowstorm: there is something of the Greek epic about it, the old gray man with his walking stick, venturing out, into the snow, out of frame and away, like an ancient word stepping off a page.

We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.

I will always wonder what it was, what that moment of beauty was, when he whispered it to me, when we found him smashed up in the hospital, what it was he was saying when he whispered into the dark that he had seen something he could not forget, a jumble of words, a man, a building, I could not quite make it out. I can only hope that in the last minute he was at peace.

On a deux vies et la deuxième commence le jour ou l'on se rend compte qu'on n'en a qu'une.

I hate to tell but now is all there ever is.

Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one

Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.

I looked at my pocket watch. It was half past IX.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

There is no later. This is later.

I think our time is up. I know. Hold my hand. Hold your hand? Yes. I want you to. All right. Why? Because that's what people do when they're waiting for the end of something.