Quotes about Moment

Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.

Don't wait! The time will never be just right.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

He dragged her under him and made love to her with the steadiness and the intensity of a man about to leave for Dayton.