Moments Quotes - Page 23

• When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

  Tom Hollander

  Spiritual, Doors, Church

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• Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Romance, Sunrise, Radiant

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• The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Arrogance, May, Reverence

  Lawrence Kushner (1998). “Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary”, Jewish Lights Pub

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• You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

  John Travolta

  Thinking, Remembers Everything, Together

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• I'd like to see (the films) go back to the books. I think (the films) need to be dirtier. I think that you should feel the man playing Bond could die at any moment. You don't feel that any more.

  Daniel Craig

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Talking, Fading

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Falling Man”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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• My friends, I tell you repeatedly that the illusion that Life creates is very, very intelligent. The illusion itself is intelligent! Just understand how intelligent the intelligence must be in order to create an intelligent illusion. The intelligent illusion is so intelligent it will appear real to man every moment of his daily life!

  Rajneesh

  Real, Men, Intelligent

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• Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment.

  Rajneesh

  Acceptance, Judging, Enlightenment

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• As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I" -- you don't have one. You are many "I"s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Liquid, Crowds

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• This word 'individual' is beautiful; it means indivisible. Right now as you are, you are divided. You are only many fragments clinging together anyhow without any center being there, without any master in the house, with only servants. And for a moment any servant can become the master.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, House

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• Every moment you are different because you are not-- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.

  Rajneesh

  Different, Divine, Happens

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• The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

  Rajneesh

  Honesty, Real, Responsibility

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• Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

  Martin Heidegger

  Happens

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• Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: "Today, if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart." Let us not put off from one moment to another (what we should do) because the (next moment) is not yet ours.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Heart, Voice, Today

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• Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.

  Dennis Sharp

  Art, Believe, Men

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• The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Justice, Psychology, Democracy

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Sound, World

  "The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2007.

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• In every moment God expresses Himself in, as, and through you. Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. This is the voice that speaks to you always of your highest choice, that places before you your grandest vision.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Home, Voice, Choices

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 24, 2014

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• Serving God - what more beautiful thing is there to do! The only real joy is to be a servant of God, and that means being awake all the time to the needs of the moment.... We cannot have any preconceived ideas of what service means. We never know from one moment to the next, what will be asked of us.

  Reshad Feild

  Beautiful, Real, Mean

  Reshad Feild (1996). “The Last Barrier: A Universal Search for Self Discovery”, Element Books Limited

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• I love being in scenes where I get to be part of a Maggie Smith put-down. A Dowager Countess put-down is always a special moment. Especially if you're working on set and she managed to do one off set at you.

  Allen Leech

  Love Is, Special, Scene

  Source: www.ew.com

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• The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

  Nick Blaemire

  Real, Hard Work, Skills

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

  Alber Elbaz

  Past, Smell, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Men, Doors, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Thinking, Doe, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Strong, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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