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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau
There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear. — Shania Twain
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. — Jean Vanier
I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a… — Rufus Wainwright
You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. — Denzel Washington
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long… — Edith Wharton
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself… — Steven Wright
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward… — Nelson Mandela
Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It… — John Irving
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the… — Oscar Wilde
It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those… — Carolyn Parkhurst
...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it… — P.G. Wodehouse
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when… — Paulo Coelho
I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess. — Scott Turow
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or… — Ian Mcewan
There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one? — Virginia Woolf
There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible. — Nicholas Sparks
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to… — Curtis Sittenfeld
With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion. — Junot Diaz
It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the… — Anne Lamott
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are… — Umberto Eco

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