Quotes About Moment

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

reprieve of roses!

It strikes me that moments like these abound. At every turn, there is always n opportunity to say yes or no. To smile or stare straight ahead. To connect or pass by barely rubbing shoulders. One day we may wake up and wonder why we said no way Jose, why we stared straight ahead, why we passed up the chance for love, or ever 'like.' Why indeed? Because it seems like the right idea at the time.

It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

Her first real kiss and he had apologised.

For me, paradise was the present

Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie's don't-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.

That's my whole trouble. I don't seem capable of living for the moment. It's as if the future threw back a shadow—a great black shadow of years of loneliness, and it terrifies me so much that I keep lighting little futile lights to try to drive the shadow away.

The desire to catch, as Bonnard hoped, the PASSING MOMENT is antithetical to being in the moment. The photographer is an observer to others' moments. The Picture People have dedicated themselves to this paradox, and consign themselves on either side of the equation.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators, child. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift from Jesus called self-control!

do. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

The public man needs but one patron, namely the lucky moment.

It is always sad when two people have been thinking the same thing at the same moment and neither can find a way to say it out loud.

She was fascinated with how lives can change after one tiny moment that didn't even seem consequential at the time, but in retrospect altered the trajectory of life.

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand…and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it's too late. —MARIE BEYNON

We watched each other's eyes. We were as strangers, in that moment — as intimate as strangers — for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.

It does not take long to die, nor to kill. A life is present or absent, and it is an instant passed between those extremities.

Pero siempre hay tiempo de cambiar. Siempre hay tiempo. Hasta que ya no hay.

We all have an eraser incorporated within us, a delete key, but we forget how to use it. Ho'oponopono helps us to remember the power that we have to choose between erasing (letting go) or reacting, being happy or suffering. It is only a matter of choice in every moment of our lives.

People only live once

THE END OF THE SUPERPOWER RIVALRY WAS A MOMENT OF INCALCULABLE promise: the third make-or-break opportunity of the twentieth century.

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.