Quotes About Moment

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present

do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

Perhaps this was what was so unnerving about Lily at this moment—the trust that was required in what we were doing.

As we walked into the store, we saw that we were catching the evening's activity in medias res.

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment.

I went along, thinking if we pretend all was well, there would come a moment when it would switch the groove from being a half lie to being a more-than-half truth, and then ultimately it would be the whole truth.

Here it is. I left this for you. As though an ancient library had breached the border into now, into the life of Aaron Levy, who had not until this moment understood how powerfully he needed something like this. He extended his fingertips. "Wash your hands," Helen snapped from behind him.

I could only lose her if, from this moment forward, I made wrong choices, or if she made them. But I would take those odds rather than the odds that luck offered.

I'd rather live the now than talk about the was.

You've got today, and there's all of time and all the world in today.

Don't worry too much about the future. The past is past. The future is an illusion. All we have is now, and we'll get through it minute by minute.

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simple, self-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

Although words are the world and were the birthing of the world, there are no words to express what I felt at that moment, no words for the dimensions of my joy, for the great buoyancy that overcame my spirit, for the depth of my gratitude, for the brightness of my hope.

Carpe noctem

Even as I regarded those two men, I became aware of the flying beams of the spotlights, to the north-east, painting ephemeral infinity symbols across the pregnant clouds that increasingly commanded the sky, of the distant roller-coaster chain clacking through the ratchet angles of the guideway as cars full of riders climbed an incline toward the next long drop, of the dusty smell of the campground, and of the scent of rain pending.

a long fall from thirty or forty stories, a short span of seconds

Having gotten ahead of the phalanx, Katie drops the Tac Light

She waits until the thing is passing overhead, squeezes off a shot, then a second

Now, as she turns away from the water, intending to go to the house to have a glass of wine

In fact, although it isn't profound, there are worse mottoes to live by than "We might as well eat.

Ray Kurzweil, dreamed of the Singularity, the moment when human and machine intelligence would merge

Her signature style is hyperrealism, an attempt to capture everything a photograph might and then much more: what the mind knows about a scene that the scene itself does not reveal; what the heart feels about the subject before it; how the past lives in the present and how the future looms real but unrevealed; what any moment on the Earth might mean, if it means anything at all.