Moments Quotes - Page 49

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

And never resist a perfect moment.

Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

I don't get caught up in the moment.

Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.