Moment Quotes

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

~ David Duchovny

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

~ Eckhart Tolle

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

~ Hugh Leonard

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

~ James Joyce

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

~ Nick Cave

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

~ Stephen Graham Jones

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

~ Angela Davis

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

~ Talib Kweli

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

~ Philip Guedalla

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

~ Carl Sandburg

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

~ Richard Eyre

The moment of change is the only poem.

~ Adrienne Rich

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.

~ Tracy K. Smith

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

~ Basil Bunting

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

~ Jessica Lange

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

~ David Soul

The Eyemo was heavy and could be noisy. Once, I was in an auditorium filming a speech made by Goebbels when, suddenly, it decided to emit a huge snarling sound. Goebbels froze, and hundreds of uniformed Brownshirts turned and glared at me in anger. It was not a comfortable moment.

~ Douglas Slocombe

There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it?

~ Janet Jackson

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

~ Louie Schwartzberg

It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.

~ Donna Brazile

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

~ Andy Garcia

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

~ William Shatner

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

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

~ Sam Abell

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

~ Jeff Goodell

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

~ Jane Seymour

Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.

~ Philip Treacy

Your wedding is your red carpet moment, and while brides definitely can take some chances with style, you don't want to look like a fad.

~ Reem Acra

The proposal is the only thing that the guy has control over in the entire wedding deal. It is your one chance to make this moment stand out, not only for you, but for her.

~ Drew Seeley

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

~ Voltaire

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

~ Ben Shapiro

The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

~ Andre Leon Talley

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

~ Graham Greene

Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

~ Jenna Ushkowitz