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Quotes About Moments

Spend all your kisses.
~ Jack Smith
In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.
~ Jack Weatherford
Every day affords individual people moments when they can shake off everything that is false and can view things from their perspective.
~ Jack Zipes
We don't get to choose our formative moments. Very often, adversity and failure shape us more permanently than fortune and success.
~ Jackie Speier
Some of the proudest moments in the history of this country are grounded in the principle that members of dominant groups have a critical role to play in the struggle for equality.
~ Jackson Katz
Perhaps you never have time when are you alive? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.
~ Jacqueline Susann
There's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count . . . You realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get back.
~ Jacqueline Susann
And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you've done . . . the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get
~ Jacqueline Susann
This is how the time moves - an hour here, a day somewhere, and then it's night and then it's morning. A clock ticking on a shelf. A small child running to school, a father coming home. Time moves over us and past us, and the feeling of lips pressed against lips fades into memory. A picture yellows at its edges. A phone rings in an empty room.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I didn't know it would be people you barely knew becoming friends that harbored you. And dreams you didn't even know you had - coming true. I didn't know it would be superpowers rising up out of tragedies, and perfect moments in a nearly empty classroom.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Ms. Johnson says each day holds its own memory - its own moments that we can write about later. She says we should always look for the moments and some of them might be perfect, filled with light and hope and laughter. Moments that stay with us forever and ever.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Notre vie n'est pas derrière nous, ni avant, ni maintenant, elle est dedans.
~ Jacques Prévert
Le Temps nous égare ! Le Temps nous étreint ! Le Temps nous est gare ! Le Temps nous est train ?
~ Jacques Prévert
Nothing last forever, only the joy and happiness that turns into memories, turns eternal.(c)
~ Unknown
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Although we usually don't notice them until long after they have passed, there are moments in life when everything hangs in the balance. There are moments when we really can change the future. When those moments come, either you lift your arms and fly, or you don't. There's nothing in between.
~ Unknown
There were other things, though. There were always more details trailing any good story. Like tin cans on the back bumper of a newlywed's car. Rattles and pings and wonderful small moments spinning in the wake of a great life.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
He believed he was celebrating them when he shared stories of their foibles. He felt the burden of being their living witness. Somehow the silliest details of their days were, to him, sacred. And he believed that if only the dominant culture could see these small moments, they would see their own human lives reflected in the other.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.
~ Luke Davies
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand.
~ Unknown
Solemn faces do not make sacred hours.
~ Lyman Abbott
Is it the pauses, not the parties, that create the friendship?
~ Unknown