Moments Quotes - Page 126

I don’t ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

At the moment we are hard-wired into the European markets - 50% of our exports go to Europe - and that has not been good for the UK. So I'm not saying "make Britain entirely dependent on China". I'm saying "let's diversify a bit". When I became chancellor, China was our ninth largest trading partner. This is the world's second biggest economy. China was doing more business with Belgium than it was with Britain.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.

I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger.

When I find my consort, I plan to stab him in the heart before he can cause me a moment's unease. -Taliyah

I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary as I get older. But I always see music, live shows, performances as moments and to really get there you've just got to actually get into the essence, flesh and the blood.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.