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Quotes About Moment

stopped by the door
~ John Sandford
that morning, and a half
~ John Sandford
out of the truck: he
~ John Sandford
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~ John Sandford
for a few moments, and he went inside. Halfway down the hall and around a corner, he
~ John Sandford
said. "You caught your breath from
~ John Sandford
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.
~ John Scalzi
Lenson Ornill took in Grayland II's words, their intent and meaning, what they boded for the church as he understood it, his faith as he had developed it, and the genesis of his engagement with both, trapped in that small cabin, struggling to breathe, all those many long years ago. And then, quite without meaning to, he uttered the words to encapsulate what he was feeling about each, in this one epochal moment. "Well, fuck," he said.
~ John Scalzi
There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss but impossible to ignore if you've felt it before. I lived in that moment a great while for the small sliver of time it was there.
~ John Scalzi
We buy time where we may." "You bought yourself time," Oi agreed. "I don't think it's of very good quality.
~ John Scalzi
Is it always like this? Tayla asked. My job? Yes This is my first week on the job, I said. So, so far? Yes. How do you feel about that? Like I wish I had decided to be the typical rich kid and been a sponge on my parents, I said. You don't really mean that, Tayla said. No, I said. But at the moment I really want to feel like I did.
~ John Scalzi
Nueva regla: La gente que viaja en el tiempo puede tomarse todo el jodido tiempo del mundo.
~ John Scalzi
What I fear is diminishment, and subtle change, and the moment in which a life without you becomes a sustainable thought.
~ John Scalzi
Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time.
~ John Scalzi
I used to be rather like you,' the doctor said vaguely, looking somewhat bored, ' All misery is invented.' After a moment he turned back to Boris and smiled. Happiness, too, I daresay.
~ Unknown
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.
~ John Steinbeck
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
~ John Steinbeck
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts will do the same thing in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in a path or a breath caught at the sight of a pretty girl or a finger nail nicked in the garden soil.
~ John Steinbeck
Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course.
~ John Steinbeck
And at that moment he saw that Merlin was already standing in the entrance of the tent, and Merlin smiled, for he took joy in causing wonder.
~ John Steinbeck
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or a breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
~ John Steinbeck
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or a breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil. Naturally
~ John Steinbeck
That mini heart attack you have when you realize you tipped your chair back just a little too far.
~ John Steinbeck
Hani bazen olur ya, o an uzad?, her andan çok daha uzun bir an oldu. Ses kesildi, hareket durdu... uzun süre öylece havada as?l? kalakald? her ÅŸey.
~ John Steinbeck