Mom Quotes - Page 115

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.

I want to privilege the moment.

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

Angie, I've seen my mom wrestle two cops to the ground with a taser dart in her neck, and you cry when your shoes pinch. Good luck, Bambi!

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my father and he literally said, “I don’t care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy.”

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

When I got home from school, I never knew which mood of my mom was gonna be on the other side of the door. I didn't know what I was gonna get when I turned the doorknob. That's very good preparation if you want to be a producer.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.