Moment Quotes

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

~ Henry Kissinger

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

~ Toby Young

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.

~ Orson Welles

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.

~ Tyler

I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.

~ Jessica Biel

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

~ Jurgen Klopp

At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

~ Mahershala Ali

Being an Australian that's been No. 1 in the world back home playing in Australia, that's a pretty cool moment to have.

~ Jason Day

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

~ Pat Benatar

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

~ David Bohm

I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'm out in the woods on a bike or a run. I feel on top of the world, and nothing else makes me feel that way.

~ Daniel Humm

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

~ Michael Keaton

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

~ Julie Mehretu

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

~ Brian Greene

As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.

~ Ellen Stofan

The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.

~ Lois Greenfield

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

~ Henry Miller

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

~ V. E. Schwab

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

~ Marc Chagall

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

~ Oscar Wilde

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

~ Eddie Rickenbacker

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

~ Matt Damon

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

~ Nick Clegg

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

~ Henri Poincaré

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

~ Carl Jung

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

~ James Levine

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

~ Carlos Santana

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

~ John Major

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

~ George F. Kennan

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

~ Rene Burri

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

~ Brian Tracy

There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.

~ David Petraeus

The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.

~ Yair Lapid

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.

~ Mickalene Thomas

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

~ Sting