Quotes About Moment

Each hour, as it comes, is but a testimony how fleeting, yet how secure, how certain, is the great whole.

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

I know there were many prayers of thanks offered up at that quiet moment. "Let us pause also in tribute to those who have preceded us, whether to victory or failure," I spoke into the microphone, "and in our earnest hope for world peace." I glanced at Jenks and took a deep breath. "Now stand by. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Mark! 2315 Eastern Daylight Savings Time,August 3, 1958. For the U.S. A. and the U.S.Navy—the North Pole!

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch—a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

We must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures.

Nor time nor placeDid then adhere.

Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul.

Now, our joy,Although our last, not least.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

It was one of those times when the unsatisfactory complexity of the world fades far enough into the distance for the moment to become a thing in itself.

It happens. Life (or death) taps you on the shoulder, interrupts what you're doing, and suddenly you find that nobody has been bothering you but yourself.

They say that history is going on somewhere. They say it won't stop. I have held One picture still for a long time and waited.

She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely apparition, sentTo be a moment's ornament.

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.

One moment now may give us more Than fifty years of reason; Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.

That's the moment I saw my home in his eyes. Maybe it was just a shared moment of smart-assedness.

Everyone knew immediately where we were. It was so insane—that moment of realization, Yes, this is an extermination camp.

Saving a life is not a matter of skill, it's a matter of opportunity.

Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?

three thousand realms in a single moment of life.

To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.