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Quotes About Moment

Tudo o que já foi, é o começo do que vai vir, toda a hora a gente está num cômpito.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
The problems of the moment must never place the principle in doubt.
~ Unknown
There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.
~ Joan Didion
I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.
~ Joan Didion
I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor Robert Duvall: I exist very nicely between the words 'action' and 'cut.' And even a third way: It doesn't present as pain, I once heard an oncological surgeon say of cancer.
~ Joan Didion
The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution… In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.
~ Joan Didion
In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.
~ Joan Didion
La vie change vite. La vie change dans l'instant. On s'apprête à dîner et la vie telle qu'on la connaît s'arrête.
~ Joan Didion
a vida muda rapidamente. a vida muda em um instante. você se senta para jantar, e a vida que você conhecia termina. a questão da autopiedade.
~ Joan Didion
You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
~ Joan Didion
Because he made her so happy, she said, and for that moment believed it.
~ Joan Didion
Kara Dukakis, one of the candidate's daughters, had at that moment emerged from the 737. "You'd have a beer with him?
~ Joan Didion
My favorite cookie is the cookie I'm eating at the moment.
~ Joanne Fluke
For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.
~ Joanne Harris
But I felt at that moment that if ever a place were in need of a little magic . . . Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes the impulse never quite leaves you.
~ Joanne Harris
For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.
~ Joanne Harris
And it is partly the transience of it that delights me; so much loving preparation, so much art and experience, put into a pleasure that can last only a moment, and which only a few will ever fully appreciate.
~ Joanne Harris
If there was a true moment that Tiger Lily fell so in love with Peter she could never turn back, it was that night, when he shivered and walked and told her he was warm, and told her he loved her so much. She was fierce, to be sure, but she had a girl's heart, after all. As she walked home that night, she was shaking from the largeness of it.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.
~ Jodi Picoult
All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.
~ Jodi Picoult
No, he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. I am not giving you up. Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. The thing is, Chris Emily said, it's not your choice.
~ Jodi Picoult
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
~ Jodi Picoult
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
~ Jodi Picoult
Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.
~ Jodi Picoult