Moments famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
-- Aaron Levie -
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
-- Abby Sunderland -
I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
-- Abel Korzeniowski -
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
-- Aberjhani -
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
-- Abraham Maslow -
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
-- Adam Braun -
In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
-- Adam Braun -
I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
-- Adam Duritz -
Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
-- Adam Hamilton -
I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
-- Adam Savage -
One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.
-- Adi Da -
I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.
-- Adrian Chiles -
Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
-- Adyashanti -
There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
-- Adyashanti -
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
-- Aesop -
As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.
-- African Spir -
It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
-- Aimee Bender -
Don't worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.
-- Aimee Teegarden -
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
-- Akon -
I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.
-- Akshay Kumar -
I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.
-- Akshay Kumar -
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
-- Al Goldstein -
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
-- Al McGuire -
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
-- Alain Badiou -
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
-- Alain de Botton -
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
-- Alan Dundes -
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
-- Alan Johnson -
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
-- Alan Rudolph -
The destination of life is this eternal moment.
-- Alan Watts -
There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
-- Albert Camus -
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
-- Albert Camus -
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
-- Albert Camus -
For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.
-- Albert Claude -
The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.
-- Albert Low -
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
-- Alda Merini -
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't.
-- Alec Sulkin -
Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws
-- Alex Gaskarth -
We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.
-- Alex Scarrow -
How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.
-- Alexander Pope -
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
-- Alexander Pope -
I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.
-- Alexander Scriabin -
Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.
-- Alexis Denisof -
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
-- Alfred Molina -
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
-- Alice Munro -
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
-- Alice Sebold -
I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger.
-- Alison Goodman -
Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.
-- Ally Carter -
You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.
-- Alveda King -
For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.
-- Alyson Noel -
Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
-- Amelia Barr -
Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me
-- Amit Abraham -
The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
-- Amos Lee -
Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail
-- Amy Harmon -
As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.
-- Amy Hempel -
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.
-- Amy Smart -
Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
-- Anais Nin -
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
-- Anais Nin -
I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!
-- Anais Nin -
Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
-- Anais Nin -
The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
-- Anatole Broyard -
I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.
-- Anderson Cooper -
One of the things that Jon Kabat-Zinnn talks about is that everyone wants to figure out how to live longer. But this actually is a very easy way for you to live longer, maybe you're not extending your life, but you are present and living more of the moments of your life.
-- Anderson Cooper -
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
-- Andre Agassi -
Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
-- Andre Kertesz -
The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.
-- Andre Kertesz -
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
-- Andrea Riseborough -
...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect,
-- Andres Iniesta
