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Quotes About Moment

His gaze lingered upon Abigail
~ Janette Oke
His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire. The
~ Janette Oke
The last song tonight is "Moment of Surrender," a hymn of suffering and redemption, a confession and plea, a very Bono mash-up of religion and mysticism, delivered as a hypnotic chant. I am mesmerized.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Hence one can think of a crisis as a moment of truth: a turning point, when conditions before and after that "moment" are "much more" different from one another than before and after "most" other moments.
~ Jared Diamond
And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.
~ Jarvis Cocker
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
~ Jasper Fforde
So when did you first consider a Winter career?' asked Williams, who seemed chatty. 'Oh, eight seconds ago,' I replied.
~ Jasper Fforde
He thought for a moment. "Perhaps the Bennett family could do with some thinning . . ." "Pride and Prejudice!?" yelled Mycroft. "You heartless monster!
~ Jasper Fforde
will involuntarily expel the spores in a single explosive death cough. THAT is the moment to panic and leap out of the nearest window--irrespective of which floor you're on, or whether it is open or not.
~ Jasper Fforde
The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two a.m. changes to six a.m.
~ Jay McInerney
Life's not what you think. It's like water – the young let it slip through their fingers without thinking. Shut your hands, Antigone, shut them tight and hold it back. You'll see – it'll turn into something small and hard that you can sit and munch in the sun.
~ Jean Anouilh
They say there is always a photographic moment to be seized where the most banal of beings yield up their secret identity. But what is interesting is their secret alterity, and rather than looking for the identity beneath the appearances, we should look for the mask beneath the identity, the figure which haunts us and diverts us from our identities -- the masked divinity which, in effect, haunts each of us for a moment, one day or another.
~ Jean Baudrillard
La décadence est la grande minute où une civilisation devient exquise.
~ Jean Cocteau
His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.
~ Jean Ferris
Algo comienza para terminar; la aventura no admite añadiduras; sólo cobra sentido con su muerte. Hacia esta muerte, que acaso sea también la mía, me veo arrastrado irreversiblemente. Cada instante aparece para traer los siguientes. Me aferro a cada instante con toda el alma; sé que es único, irreemplazable, y, sin embargo, no movería un dedo para impedir su aniquilación.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
~ Jean Rhys
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
~ Jean Rhys
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
~ Jean Rhys
He says: 'it doesn't matter. What I know is that I could do this with you' — he makes a movement with his hands like a baker, kneading a loaf of bread — 'and afterwards you'd be different.
~ Jean Rhys
Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
Happiness. One day. Ten thousand years ago.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson