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Quotes About Moment

What a laborious, frightful business it was, this killing time, over and over again that little seconds-hand racing invisibly beyond the horizon, over and over again you threw a heavy dark sack over it, in the certain knowledge that the little hand went racing on, relentlessly on and on…
~ Heinrich Boll
Ötekiler gülüyor, para umurlar?nda deÄŸil, dertleri vakit öldürmek. Ne zor ne korkunç bir iÅŸ bu vakit öldürmek; ufkun ard?nda göze görünmeksizin h?zla dönüp duran ÅŸu saniye göstergesi yok mu, onun durmadan koÅŸmaya devam ettiÄŸini, amans?zca koÅŸup durduÄŸunu bilmek yok mu?...
~ Heinrich Boll
She had been an exceptional leader in an exceptional moment – a miraculous anomaly who, by the will of heaven, had transformed the landscape in which she stood. She knew that God was with her, and how much work still lay ahead. But what if those around her believed the moment of miracles had passed?
~ Helen Castor
On the day of the party I walked down to Covent Garden at lunchtime to buy a dress, and on my way to Boules I thought I would just stop off for a moment at Books etc.
~ Helen DeWitt
Your life can change in the blink of an eye, on a calm and beautiful Midsummer night. You lose what you love while you think it is still safe beside you.
~ Helen Dunmore
The Moment opens. The moment closes. There is sunlight. There is frost. There is the brief idea of roses amid the patch of weeds.
~ Helen Humphreys
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
met him the day after,
~ Helen L. Taylor
the world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might see them. Once, twice. Perhaps never again.
~ Helen Macdonald
Everything was accelerating now towards that crucial point. Point in the sense of time. Point in the sense of aim. Point in the sense of something so sharp it hurts.
~ Helen Macdonald
When I was writing the speech, still a little concussed, I reached for the phone to call my father and ask what type of plane it was, and for a moment the world went very black.
~ Helen Macdonald
That was the moment. Until a minute ago I was so terrifying I was all that existed. But then she had forgotten me. Only for a fraction of a second, but it was enough. The forgetting was delightful because it was a sign that the hawk was starting to accept me. But there was a deeper, darker thrill. It was that I had been forgotten.
~ Helen Macdonald
Time (is) a fabric; the instant called now (is) only a thread.
~ Helen Nielsen
You tell me what it is when some sensation leaves you for the space of one heartbeat and returns at double strength.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
And all the while there was the theater of my hands. It was theater, in that it was the performance of something that was true, and as such, I believed in it with all my heart but was also able to come to the end of it at a moment's notice.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
There's that difficulty with delirium too: You see it raging in another person's eyes and then it flickers out. That's the most dangerous moment; it's impossible to see something that's so swiftly and suddenly swallowed you whole.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.
~ Helen Schucman
Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don't expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
SHRINK THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRESSURE MOMENT
~ Hendrie Weisinger
The important takeaway is to know that you don't have to wait until you win something to access the winner effect: You can do it in any moment by engaging and getting proficient at mental rehearsal or visualization.
~ Hendrie Weisinger
In realtà, ogni momento della nostra vita è creazione; per un essere cosciente, "esistere" significa cambiare; cambiare nel maturarsi; e maturarsi nel creare se stesso all'infinito.
~ Henri Bergson
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
~ Henri Cartier Bresson
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson