Quotes About Moments

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

Light staggers through the trees. Every moment is filled with other moments.

The value of time, and how we experience it, depends on on how we use it: how we feel about our lives — at the time.

Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.

There are some things he doesn't want to know about himself, and others he doesn't want anybody else to know. Which makes him like the rest of us. ... There are moments in the lives of others that excite both our disgust and our shame, the fear of what we ourselves might do. ... I venture to say that everyone on this jury, and everyone in this room, has done things that they're ashamed of, and told lies that they regret.

There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.

On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we're worried about something else happening.

Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.

Descobri que as experiências mais significativas de nossa vida raramente ocorrem quando as esperamos, e muito frequentemente quando nem sequer estamos prestando atenção." - A Promessa -

I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

On the calendar, all the days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.

names of places we've been together, names of people we'd be together.

pressed into the gravel, pressed into the dirt, pressing against each other in an effort to make the minutes stop—

Things happen all the time, things happen every minute that have nothing to do with us.

And me, well, I have to confess that I liked them all too, but maybe leaned more in favour of those types of stories that reached inside of you, touched something that you hadn't touched for a long time, and reminded you of the soft moments where you really came to be who you are. Spoken by Amelia One For The Road (a fictional character in Ragged Company) about the movies she'd seen.

The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl's face, it was.

The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave the world. I was still in it, barely, and as I looked up from the ashes, everything around me seemed so sweet and so beautiful. The trees. The stars. The moon. I was alive -- and I was glad I was.

And sometimes, if I was really, really lucky, he'd smile at me. A real smile, too—not the dry one that accompanied the sarcasm we tossed around so often. I didn't want to admit it to anyone—not to Lissa, not even to myself—but some days, I lived for those smiles.

Well...I'm on birth control" I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. "What?" "It takes a while for it to start working, so I figured I should be prepared, just in case." "Just in case," I repeated, still dumbfounded.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.