Quotes About Moment

Some kind of philosophical mission, something that would push back, if only for a moment, against the inescapable nihilism of this place.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

This is what the living do.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time...You try to walk in the light.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it lasts forever.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

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.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.