Moment Quotes - page 3

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. (Carl Sandburg)
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment. View quote
Livy
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. View quote
Livy
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. View quote
Joseph Addison
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. View quote
Colette
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. View quote
Willa Cather
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. View quote
Willa Cather
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! View quote
Robert Browning
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. (George Santayana)
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. View quote
Eudora Welty
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. View quote
Mary McCarthy
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The moment of change is the only poem. View quote
Adrienne Rich
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. View quote
Matthew Arnold
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. (Hilaire Belloc)
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. View quote
Václav Havel
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. View quote
George Sand
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. View quote
Sylvester Stallone