Moment Quotes
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Tags: Mind, Serenity ✍ Author: Joseph AddisonTo a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Tags: Lost, Pleasure ✍ Author: Joseph AddisonI don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
Tags: Interest, Young ✍ Author: Isabelle AdjaniThinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Tags: Means, Thinking ✍ Author: Theodor AdornoWhatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
Tags: Food, Lost ✍ Author: Sade AduWhen you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.
Tags: Hard, Students ✍ Author: John AgarAnd I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
Tags: Expect, Plan ✍ Author: Gianni AgnelliWell, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.
Tags: Doubt, Strong ✍ Author: Gianni AgnelliThe Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.
Tags: Strong, Union ✍ Author: Giovanni AgnelliIf I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.
Tags: Lost, Sometimes ✍ Author: Dianna AgronAs we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
Tags: Political, Worry ✍ Author: Kamal AhmedFor a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Tags: After, Happen ✍ Author: Douglas AdamsAt this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
Tags: Ability, High ✍ Author: Muhammad AliThe moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Tags: Life, Place ✍ Author: Woody AllenOnly when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Tags: Gift, Whatever ✍ Author: Woody AllenWe praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Tags: Angry, Time ✍ Author: Maya AngelouA lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Tags: Lady, Love ✍ Author: Jane AustenThe courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Tags: Courage, Life ✍ Author: John F. KennedyThere is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
Tags: Acting, Yourself ✍ Author: Marilyn MonroeThe moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Tags: Object, Theory ✍ Author: Thomas JeffersonWere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Tags: Government, Whether ✍ Author: Thomas JeffersonI was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Tags: Country, Fight ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillThings go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.
Tags: Fashion, Hope ✍ Author: Katy BRest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Tags: Best, Life ✍ Author: Edward BachVisit partners pages
No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.
Tags: Talk, Thinking ✍ Author: Amitabh BachchanI want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.
Tags: Big, Government ✍ Author: Michele BachmannWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Tags: Thoughts, Write ✍ Author: Francis BaconSometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
Tags: Life, Sometimes ✍ Author: Pearl BaileyIt's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.
Tags: Daily, Life ✍ Author: Alan BallLove or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Tags: Love, Together ✍ Author: Honore de BalzacThere wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.
Tags: Decision, Love ✍ Author: Eric BanaFor me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
Tags: Heart, Truth ✍ Author: Ann BancroftNo, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.
Tags: Groups, Meaning ✍ Author: Lester BangsThere's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
Tags: Away, Feeling ✍ Author: Lynne Reid BanksFrom offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.
Tags: Life, Time ✍ Author: Tyra BanksThe moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Tags: Pain, Though ✍ Author: Henry Ward BeecherThe moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
Tags: Give, Impossible ✍ Author: Montserrat CaballeThe real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Tags: Problem, Real ✍ Author: Vince CableI started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
Tags: Career, Moving ✍ Author: Herman CainI sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
Tags: Moving, Short ✍ Author: James CallaghanFrom the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
Tags: Lens, Tender ✍ Author: Julia Margaret CameronI think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
Tags: Tension, Whole ✍ Author: Jane CampionOn sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
Tags: Last, Sure ✍ Author: Eric CantonaMy best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
Tags: Best, Good ✍ Author: Eric CantonaThe moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Tags: Attractive, Somebody ✍ Author: Kate CapshawI find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
Tags: Fight, Instinct ✍ Author: Gina CaranoIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Tags: Beginning, Remains ✍ Author: Thomas CarlyleIt is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Tags: Die, Life ✍ Author: George Washington CarverI suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Tags: Life, Wrong ✍ Author: Charlie ChaplinThe man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Tags: Artist, Great ✍ Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonEverybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
Tags: Creative, Start ✍ Author: Paulo CoelhoLife was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Tags: Life, Waiting ✍ Author: Paulo CoelhoMost theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.
Tags: Idea, Work ✍ Author: Stephen DaldryMeryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.
Tags: Between, Movies ✍ Author: Jeff DanielsCreating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Tags: Creating, Force ✍ Author: Edwidge DanticatI'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.
Tags: Talk, Thinking ✍ Author: Tommy DavidsonYes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
Tags: Moving, Rights ✍ Author: Angela DavisWhen a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
Tags: Dead, Truth ✍ Author: Elmer DavisInterestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
Tags: Hot, Human ✍ Author: Evan DavisSomeday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
Tags: Car, Someday ✍ Author: Evan DavisThe governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Tags: Last, Secret ✍ Author: Benjamin DisraeliI can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
Tags: Happen, Next ✍ Author: Bob DylanMeanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
Tags: Life, Lost ✍ Author: Hermann EbbinghausFor me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.
Tags: Forward, Help ✍ Author: The EdgeWhat lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.
Tags: Art, Work ✍ Author: Jennifer EganWe live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
Tags: Reading, Write ✍ Author: Jennifer EganIt is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Tags: Off, Sense ✍ Author: Atom EgoyanThere is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
Tags: Home, Son ✍ Author: Atom EgoyanThat's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
Tags: Eyes, Lovely ✍ Author: Barbara EhrenreichYou have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.
Tags: Him, Peace ✍ Author: Jill EikenberryI don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
Tags: Home, Mean ✍ Author: Idris ElbaNow there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Tags: Between, Special ✍ Author: Idris ElbaIn the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
Tags: Nice, Work ✍ Author: Andrew EldritchThe most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.
Tags: Memorable, Playing ✍ Author: Jenna ElfmanYeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.
Tags: Acting, Character ✍ Author: Jenna ElfmanI've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Tags: Big, Start ✍ Author: Mircea EliadeOur difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
Tags: Permanent, Somehow ✍ Author: T. S. EliotThere has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Tags: Country, Wise ✍ Author: Havelock EllisIt is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Tags: Days, Quality ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonWealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Tags: Characters, Wealth ✍ Author: M. C. EscherEvery moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Tags: Temptation, Victory ✍ Author: Frederick William FaberThe moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Tags: Dead, Give ✍ Author: Oriana FallaciI've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.
Tags: Away, Moon ✍ Author: Colin FarrellIt's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
Tags: Living, Ungrateful ✍ Author: Suzanne FarrellEven though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.
Tags: Insecure, Though ✍ Author: Suzanne FarrellI definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.
Tags: Doubt, Islam ✍ Author: Bruce FeilerThere have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
Tags: Change, Mind ✍ Author: FeistIf you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.
Tags: Enjoy, While ✍ Author: Julian FellowesZeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
Tags: Humanity, Ship ✍ Author: Edward FeltenAs soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.
Tags: Car, Wait ✍ Author: Tom FeltonI don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.
Tags: Afraid, Great ✍ Author: Jesse Tyler Ferguson