Quotes About Moment

We stood looking at each other. It was raining. She looked at me with her rain-colored eyes.

when what she needed was something concrete, some small final memory to slip its hand in hers and accompany her—sightless now, stumbling—through this sudden desert of existence which stretched before her from the present moment until the end of life.

maybe that's what's waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through the doors of it, what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes His hands off our eyes and says: Look!

had something to say? At any rate. We left our rooms pretty much

A sunstruck instant that existed now and forever.

achingly conscious that I was alive and young on a beautiful day;

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what it was; I suppose we never do.

some clear, personable spark seemed to fly up through his eyes and I saw the creature he really was—and he, I believe, saw me. For an instant we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit.

as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what it was; I suppose we never do.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

That was the missed moment. I should have put out a hand and taken her arm and said, "Here I am. Ask me. Now. The real question! Tell me. While I'm here. Ask me before it's too late.

And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there.

Bess and I had a talk. January 1919. Everything flowed from that talk, that moment. Everything. Look back on your life and see if you can pinpoint the moment when everything changed. If you can't? That means you haven't had your momemt yet, and you better hold on to your ass, it's coming.

For one beautiful moment—and who could ask anything more of life?—I needed and wanted for nothing.

Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies. Sutton laughs. What's funny? Photographer says. Nothing. Except—that's pure horseshit kid. I can't think of anything that lies more than a photo. In fact every photo is a dirty stinking lie because it's a frozen moment—and time can't be frozen. Some of the biggest lies I've ever run across have been photos. Some of them were of me.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

If you are in a situation where you can turn an opportunity into something great, grab that chance.

Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, said, "There are three keys to success: 1. Being at the right place at the right time. 2. Knowing you are there. 3. Taking action.

You can plan forever but at some point you have to execute.

Radio traffic in your ears adds to the storm and demands a conscious response, which means one's actions in the moment must be subconscious.

Anyway, there's a time and place for everything, and while this may have been the place, it wasn't the time.

the very moment you are caught, there is always a chance.

He turned to pull the door closed and the warm air from the hall rushed through the narrow opening again. As he saw the yellow paper, the pencil flying, scooped off the desk and, unimpeded by the glassless window, sail out into the night and out of his life, Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. Robert Frost