Moment Quotes - page 9

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. (Arthur Miller)
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations. View quote
Pliny the Elder
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. View quote
Joseph Conrad
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen. View quote
Horatio Nelson
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. View quote
Franz Kafka
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. View quote
Milan Kundera
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. View quote
Thomas Otway
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. View quote
Colum McCann
We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant. View quote
Colum McCann
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. View quote
Paul
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. View quote
Martha Beck
We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think? View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives. View quote
Mary Balogh
Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. View quote
Novak Djokovic
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment. (Augusten Burroughs)
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. View quote
Rudolf Nureyev
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have. View quote
Susan Beth Pfeffer