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Quotes About Moments

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.
~ John Henrik Clarke
O aching time! O moments big as years!
~ John Keats
You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.
~ John Mott
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
~ Joseph Addison
The work of memory collapses time.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
~ Aaron Ashmore
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
~ Craig Clevenger
The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.
~ Peter Wollen
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
~ Edward Young
No two men living at the same time live in the same time.
~ Elliott Jaques
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
~ Eric Zorn
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
~ Herbert Hoover
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time flies, and what is past is done.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You never know how much time you have with someone.
~ Lisa Jakub
There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.
~ Mario Giacomelli
Now is the only time there is... Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay!
~ Mark Victor Hansen
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
~ Michael Pollan
One day you will wake up and there wonÂ't be any more time to do the things youÂ've always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
~ Paulo Coelho
You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.
~ Ram Dass
You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.
~ Shelagh Delaney
You never know how much time you'll have.
~ Stephenie Meyer
History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
~ Tavis Smiley