Quotes About Moment

Bullshit then." Carmelo was not a woman bogged down by semantics. "He's fine. Look at him! He's ecstatic. He's euphoric." "For the moment." Carmelo looked at her daughter. "For the moment's all there is, my darling.

P]aper's just as permanent once you send it out into the world. It seems like it closes the story, settles on one ending eliminating infinite possibilities, fixes it in place, in voice, but no, it does the opposite. You write it down so others can read it, and then it can grow. You nail it to a moment so it can pass through time.

It wasn't so much that she and Penn set out to practice Zen marriage equality and perfect-balance parenting. It was just that there was way more to do than two could manage, but by their both filling every spare moment, some of what needed to got done.

It was like when your car spins out on an icy road, and your senses turn up so high that time seems to slow because you notice everything, and you just sit in your spinning car waiting, waiting to see if you're, going to die. He couldn't loos at her because every sense and every fraction of a moment and every atom of his body was being in love with her. It was weird.

there was nothing yet to fear, and so he passed it off as joy, as heart-pounding, pulse-quaking joy. Not as a premonition. Not as the moment to grab her hand and turn and run.

But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling but bad for decision making, and it is frightening to look back and realize, were it not for that moment, all of our lives would have been so different. maybe that's revisionist history. Maybe it's me making origin myths. But I can't shake the conviction that Jason's boyfriend's friend's ex-boyfriend's girlfriend changed the world.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

The children danced on. They were alive; that is all that mattered. They lived for the moment. They danced when they could, and died when they would.

But sometimes you have to go for it in life. If you just sit around thinking, then nothing ever happens. And with that I was seized by a moment of clarity.

was for a fleeting instant the pachyderm Pied Piper.

A sudden powerful transition to the offensive—the flashing sword of vengeance—is the greatest moment for the defense.

Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you're trapped in a moment you'll never be able to change.

My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.

I'll describe the original approach of Barbour, but most of what I'll have to say applies to Gomes's version9, as well as more recent work of Barbour and his collaborators. A moment, for them, is a configuration of the universe as a whole. These configurations, according to Barbour and Gomes, are relational configurations, which code all the relations that can be captured in a moment, such as relative distances and relative sizes.

For a love in the sky, you must well understand, Keeps up an unending desire, And a moment down here is eternity there To the lover who seeks to aspire.

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

Dream for a moment's space of care and strife, Wake, stare, and smile, and that is human Life.

Doctora Zainab looks at her watch. I should leave. But Mai carries her book and sits next to me. She wants me to read it for her. I start to read 'This is the House that Jack Built' and I forget Doctora Zainab's presence there is only Mai's attention and Tamer looking at us. For as long as the book lasts, we are poised, no future, no past.-Minaret

Life never end when you are in it.