Moments Quotes · Page 147

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

— Cate Blanchett

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

— John Cleese

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All days will pass, all moments will last, each friend will part, it's a journey too fast.

— Senora Roy

The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.

— Wayne Dyer

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine…

— Kara DioGuardi

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky…

— Jack Miles

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a…

— Deepak Chopra

Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river,…

— Anonymous

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others…

— Louise Hay

It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song… It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make…

— M. Ward

Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment -…

— Sharon M. Draper

“You don't need to follow every impulse in life; you don't need to take on every gamble. But some, even ones that…

— R.K. Lilley

...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this…

— Charles Bukowski

It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the…

— Noam Chomsky

To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,…

— Khaled Hosseini

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments…

— Anne Lamott

Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism?…

— Sara Ahmed

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that…

— William Boyd

I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a…

— Tom Odell

I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good…

— Erlend Loe

“You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments.”

— Sarah Dessen

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

— John C. Maxwell

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

— David Mitchell

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.

— Theo Rossi

Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."

— Tony Hsieh

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

— Graham Nash

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

There were moments where I had no money in my account and I was borrowing money to do stuff.

— Ice Spice

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

— Adam Conover

“Life can be painfully uncanny like that. Some moments last a lifetime whilst others have an expiry date.”

— Nikki rowe

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

— Gore Vidal

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!'

— Lindsey Stirling

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

— Blase J. Cupich