Moment Quotes - page 7

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world. (Nhat Hanh)
The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself. View quote
Michael Chabon
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. View quote
Philip Larkin
Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch our country, and their shackles fall. View quote
William Cowper
All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly. View quote
Mario Lemieux
We need to love more rather than be loved.We need to give more rather than to take.We need to be more open rather than be closed off to new ideas.Life is short, so let's enjoy what it has to offer moment to moment. View quote
Shannon Leto
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. (Bertrand Russell)
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. View quote
Henry Fielding
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. View quote
Roberto Cavalli
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. View quote
Jane Austen
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? View quote
Jane Austen
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. View quote
Sun Tzu
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. View quote
Francis Bacon
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. View quote
Hart Crane
we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored that's the time for sex. View quote
H. G. Wells
Sometimes it just takes a moment to forget a life, but sometimes life is not enough to forget for a moment. (Jim Morrison)
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment. View quote
Katharine Kerr
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. View quote
Anne Brontë
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space? View quote
D. T. Suzuki
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. View quote
James Russell Lowell