Quotes About Moments

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Everything tell me that I need to live a more solitary life. The loveliest and most precious moments of my life are slipping away in amusements which, in truth, bring me nothing but boredom. (Sunday 4 April 1824).

religion to help them with their fears but that is forgotten when the fears are taken care of; a religion made of moments of craziness but that is remote and shadowy in the clear light of the sun and the routines of every day.

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

The past is every second of your life up until now. Up until NOW. See how quickly the present is gobbled up by the past? The present is... Sorry, it's already gone. Hmm, it was just there a minute ago.

I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.'

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.

People are remembered for defining moments in their career.

I have played in so many games and have had so many incredible moments that selecting one or remembering all of them is impossible.

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that, at points, what we're watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film.

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest number of people. I'm interested in digging and excavating as deep as I can go into those small eternal moments and how they expand out, or close in, on the lives of my characters.

I played 112 times for Uruguay and experienced some of the greatest moments in my life representing my country.

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Du verstehst einfach nicht, daß es besondere Augenblicke gibt, in denen alles nur Liebe ist.

Les grands moments de l'existence, les naissances, la maladie, la mort ont le don de vous ramener à l'extrême banalité et de vous faire monter aux lèvres ces expressions toute faites, nées de la sagesse populaire, et qui traduisent mieux qu'un langage savant les réactions viscérales (47).

De todas maneras - continuó -, la pretensión de entresacar los momentos especiales de nuestra vida puede ser un grave error. Es posible que la vida sólo pueda ser juzgada en su totalidad, in extenso, y no a trozos, no tomando un día y quitando otro, no separando los años como las piezas de un rompecabezas para acabar diciendo que tal fue muy bueno y tal muy malo. Y es que todo lo que vive, vive como un río. Sin cortes, sin paradas.

When things were bad, time had a habit of taking its time to pass, making sure you experienced every painful moment. When things were good and contentment abundant, time moved like the wind, hurrying precious moments along and forcing things that normally require nurturing to grow and forge quickly.

Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What you mean?' Sugar said,... 'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.' 'Just smile? Smile at what? At who?' 'Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.

The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs.