Moments Quotes - Page 130

The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

The point is to be involved in the moment.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my own life. I'm stealing from my own life in a way, and from the people around me, but in service of getting somewhere else. I'm starting with an autobiographical impulse, to get a better vantage on the circumstances of the life that I happen to be in at the moment and how that life connects to others.

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

Take a moment to think... See - logically.

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.

I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.

There have been those moments in my life - in all of our lives - where you think, "I could literally be dead at any moment." Once you go down the rabbit hole, you realize how precious life is and you realize you never realized before how precious life is.

To live in that place where both sides could at any moment turn on you? It leaves you in a very traumatic spot.

What's it all about Alfie, is it just the moment we live?

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be.

The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.