Moments Quotes · Page 219

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

— Marilynne Robinson

Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.

— Mason Cooley

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

— Brad Schneider

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

— Kenneth Kaunda

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

— Rufus Wainwright

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest…

— Barbara Walters

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

— Jack Kornfield

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

— Neil Gaiman

You decide every moment of every day, who you are and what you believe in. You get a second chance every second.…

— Tanya Bianco

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or,…

— May Sarton

Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff." ... Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments. "Old-fashioned…

— Derek Landy

With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder,…

— Tara Brach

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that…

— Os Guinness

From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically…

— Steven Weber

I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much -…

— Jennifer Lopez

Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in…

— Anonymous

Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that…

— Christian Wiman

And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may…

— Geraldine Brooks

I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his…

— Markus Zusak

One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost…

— Sam Abell

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already…

— Eckhart Tolle

And then there was moments with white guy where like we would be in Harlem. There would be five brothers in the…

— Sanaa Lathan

I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in…

— Glenn Ligon

I could vomit, right this moment. I literally could vomit on cue. Yes. Here's the truth of that. We didn't have a…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

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

— Robert Breault

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

— Ernest Hemingway

Time is the most elastic element in the world. It increases minutes when we are waiting and decreases hours when we are…

— Anonymous

There's so much dishonesty with motherhood in general... The truth is it's just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.

— Catherine Reitman

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and…

— W. H. Auden

My life is a roller coaster. A lot of good moments, a lot of bad moments, too. At the end of the…

— Brandon Moreno

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

— Rumi

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

— Spencer W. Kimball

I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

— Christopher Reeve

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

— Tony Robbins

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

— Amit Ray

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

— Vera Farmiga

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

— Nancy Mitford

I'm just trying to enjoy the heck out of each of my moments and find little things about every day that make…

— Jaz Sinclair