Quotes About Moment

The point is," Sid Morris says. "This. Now. Paint on your brush, wind at your back, my crappy studio. This is the only certainty. Here: your sensations; your body existing for its moment in time. Everything else is crap.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

His gaze dropped and fell to the floor in thoughtful concentration for a long moment. When he looked up at her again, his gaze was direct and unflinching. Because I have fallen in love with you.

I immediately understood that all our training—the rehearsal of thoughts and actions, the merging of individual identities into a coordinated and interdependent force—was done in anticipation of this very moment, to stanch the fundamental impulse to flee from such terror. We smelled that death—perhaps the death of civilization—and we kept moving toward it, thereby becoming something more and less than human.

Throughout the war I looked back on that evening at the Harvard Club with great fondness, recalling it as the moment when I found my footing among the officers and struck up some of my truest friendships. But then the Pocket tainted my nostalgia, as it tainted everything else.

But also it is not only expedient, there is something more, a feeling that we of Germany have found our destiny and that the future sweeps toward us in an overwhelming wave. We too must move. We must go with it. Even now there are being wrongs done. The storm troopers are having their moment of victory, and there are bloody heads

Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the working against time...

Moment by moment we have the opportunity to say yes, to move into our lives and open ourselves to the adventure...

It might be just some trend that came and went, I said. But for us, it's our life.

I have this feeling, that all it will take will be one moment, even a tiny moment, provided it's the correct one. Like a cord suddenly snapping and a thick curtain dropping to the floor to reveal a whole new world, a world full of sunlight and warmth.

And for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night.

It might be just some trend that came and went," I said. "But for us, it's our life.

It might be just some trend that came and went,' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

Pero tenía la esperanza de que, si nuestras miradas seguían unidas durante unos cuantos segundos, ella sabría leer mi expresión como yo había sabido leer la suya.

This gave us both a little chill, and though we giggled, we didn't say any more about it.

It's just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time.

The Mother was wearing a coat – a thin, dark, high-ranking one – which moved with the wind around her body, so that for a moment she reminded me of the dark birds that perched on the high traffic signals even as the winds blew fiercely.

Kaikki neljä pysyivät jonkin aikaa liikkumatta, kun myrsky yltyi, ja salaman leimahdus valaisi heidän suojansa. Pitkän miehen ja vanhan naisen merkillisen jähmeä asento tuntui loitsivan Axlin ja Beatricen, ja molemmat olivat vaiti aloillaan. Oli melkein kuin he olisivat itse törmänneet kuvaan, astuneet sen sisään ja muuttuneet itsekin maalatuiksi hahmoiksi.

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way.

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently.

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

He smiled. Hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug.

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

I won't make excuses for what I did. The truth is that your whole life can change with one split-second decision, and it doesn't matter if you told yourself you'd never do it or if you stepped into the moment with no intention of doing it. All it takes is for that one second of absolute panic when the solution shines right there in front of you, and you grab it... only to have it turn into ash in your hand. There is no excuse for what I did.