moment quotes

• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (George Sand) [beauty/eyes/moment/soul & body]
• "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. (Theodore Roosevelt) [moment/decision/thing/right]
• 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. (Robert Frost) [brain/moment/morning/office]
• Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph. (Frank Zappa) [moment/beauty]
• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Henry Miller) [moment]
• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [moment/love]
• The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. (Douglas Adams) [moment/people]
• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. (Joseph Addison) [moment/mind]
• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. (Joseph Addison) [present/moment/future/life]
• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. (Joseph Addison) [pleasure/moment]
• labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was ( Akhenaton) [think/present/moment]
• The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. (Richard Bach) [moment]
• Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. (Francis Bacon) [life/age/moment]
• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. (Francis Bacon) [thoughts/moment]
• The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. (James Baldwin) [moment/faith/light]
• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. (Henry Ward Beecher) [moment/pain]
• The most dangerous moment comes with victory. ( Napoleon I) [moment]
• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. (James Boswell) [moment]
• No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. (Andre Breton) [moment/life/feeling]
• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. (Edmund Burke) [moment]
• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. (Edmund Burke) [life/loss/moment]
• In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. (Thomas Carlyle) [phenomenon/moment]
• The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. (Raymond Chandler) [business/attitude/moment/approach]
• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [value/time/moment/idleness]
• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [artist/moment]
• There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring. (Winston Churchill) [moment]
• My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation! (Robert Clive) [god/moment]
• Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. (Charles Caleb Colton) [philosophy/danger/moment/religion]
• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [moment/night/tragedies/duties]
• Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. (Michel Foucault) [absolute/art/moment/time]
• The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. (Robert Frost) [brain/moment/morning/office]

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