Moment Quotes

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

When we lose our liberties, it does not happen in one dramatic moment, but gradually and quietly.

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

Creating 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.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

The moment of change is the only poem.

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

As 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.

Appreciate the moment.

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.