Quotes About Moments

Even at its most outrageous early moments, the Tea Party movement was treated to sober and at times breathless media coverage, to the point of being invited to co-host a presidential debate.

Injuries give you perspective. They teach you to cherish the moments that I might have taken for granted before.

At school, I was bored with the teachers, and there were moments where I felt they were singling me out.

If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential—but not at the cost of wasting your life. I decided I wasn't going to waste it now.

wished desperately that I could paint her in these moments and immortalize that look in her eyes. There was a softness in them that I rarely saw at other times, a total and complete vulnerability in someone who was normally so guarded and analytical in the rest of her life. But although I was a decent painter, capturing her on canvas was beyond my skill.

It took me years to learn that happiness is not something one attains, but fleeting, like sunshine. It comes and goes.

You never know when you're making a memory Rickie Lee Jones, from "Young Blood," Ricki Lee Jones (1979)

There are seven things you can never get back. 1. Words after they have been spoken. 2. A stone after it has been thrown. 3. A moment or occasion after it has passed. 4. A person after they have passed. 5. Time once it has passed. 6. Betrayal after it has transpired. 7. A lie after it has been spoken.

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of.

It was a smashing time, and then it ended, because that's what times do.

A mix tape steals these moments from all over the musical cosmos, and splices them into a whole new groove.

Discovering you've missed your tea's perfect drinking temperature by a fraction of a second.

I'm not usually sold on epiphanies. I am more interested in the opposite experience: not those rare moments of startling insight or realization, but-what I suspect are more common-those sudden flashes of anxious confusion and bewilderment.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.