Moment Quotes

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything. (Immanuel Kant)
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. View quote
Livy
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. View quote
Sun Tzu
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. View quote
Robert Frost
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. View quote
H. G. Wells
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. View quote
Orson Welles
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. View quote
Groucho Marx
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme. View quote
Howard Carter
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. View quote
Norman Mailer
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. View quote
Aphra Behn
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. View quote
Ronald David Laing
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. View quote
Richard Bach
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. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. View quote
Douglas Adams
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. View quote
Eric Berne
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mound the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. (Oprah Winfrey)
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. View quote
Oliver Herford
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." View quote
C. S. Lewis
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
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