Moment Quotes

Admit it America - 2008 was our national 'oops' moment!
Rick Perry

America, National, Admit

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Francis Ford Coppola

Success, Age, Greatest

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
George F. Kennan

Endurance, Heroism

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

May, Through, Dark

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
Susan Orlean

Home, Him, After

I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
Susan Orlean

Great, Born, Happens

The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.
Susan Orlean

Love, Waiting, Fire

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
David Duchovny

Life, Born, Happiest

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather

Power, Made, Healing

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
Bill Bradley

Time, Why, Sometimes

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Stefan Zweig

Life, History, Human

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Eudora Welty

Good, Away, Running

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Serena Williams

Time, Nothing, Working

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
May Sinclair

Yourself, Excitement, Quiet

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'
Joan Jett

Life, Job, Person

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
St. Jerome

Hour, Improve, Catch

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
Sidney Poitier

Change, Single, Alters

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.
Thierry Henry

Feeling, Step, Mine

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King

Great, History, Nothing

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
Eric Cantona

Last, Sure, Ordinary

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.
Eric Cantona

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
Thornton Wilder

Good, Excellent, Danger

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Jeanne Moreau

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Herman Hesse

Perfect, Path, Grace

I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
Julia Roberts

Life, Open, Fame

I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it... that is critical.
Julia Roberts

Time, Children, Feeling

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
George MacDonald

May, Point, Whether

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Henrik Ibsen

Life, Home, May

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus

Life, Men, Death

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley

Work, Anyone, Provided

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