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Moment Quotes by Italo Calvino
- Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still…
- The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that…
- Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make…
- This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences…
- To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place…
- ...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take…
- Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will…
- So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the…
- You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more…
- Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture…
More Moment Quotes
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach