That Moment Quotes - Page 13

• If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

  Sei Shonagon

  Dark, Worry, Joy

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• From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sun, Moments, Plates

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.295, CUP Archive

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• Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Art, Creativity, Survival

  "Ground Truthing". Interview with Devon Fredericksen, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.

  Jim Thome

  Mistake, Sometimes, Realizing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

  George Carlin

  Laughing, Defense, Moments

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• Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

  Matt Roper

  Milk, Moments, Turns

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• We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time. Take a moment to appreciate the person in your life. Realize why you are with them. Take a moment with them and really be in that moment completely.

  Pandora Boxx

  Long, Appreciate, Realizing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Crazy, Feet, Would Be

  "Aikido Shugyo" by Gōzō Shioda, (p. 79), 1991.

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• It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Please Me, Bored, Floating

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• We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

  Orson Scott Card

  Moments, Our Lives

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.339, Macmillan

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• The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Soul, Body

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• Under that light rain, beaming in the night game, can't stop now, keep moving, no brake pads. Came here to prove a point, live my life on the field, make history in between the base paths. And compete against the fear that is in me, that's my only barrier and I swear I'm going to break that. From the mud, the cleats that we dragged through the feet, this is that moment and you cannot take it back... This is what you make of it, yeah we play to win, live it like we're under the lights of the stadium. Fight, until the day that God decides to wave us in, right, until he waves us in.

  Macklemore

  Moving, Rain, Fighting

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• Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Leadership, Fall, Play

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.10

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• I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Ideas, Feelings, Style

  "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.

  Martin Amis

  Color, Shadow, Rest Of Your Life

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• Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Cereal, Ideas

  "Douglas Adams" by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. January 28, 1998.

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• At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Stupid, Sleep, Men

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Land, Shadow, Tasks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 378), 1895.

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• The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Children, War, Party

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, January 23, 2009.

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• No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Dark, Thinking

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• When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Moments, Brushes

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• So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Color, Purple

  Source: collider.com

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• When you start projecting on the future - "Oh my God, I gotta do this and I'm not there yet" - well, of course you're not there yet because you're here now. That time will come. I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn't feel as stressful.

  Jennifer Beals

  Stress, Joy, Trying

  First for Women Interview, February 08, 2010.

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• Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.

  Jennifer Beals

  Daughter, Running, Thinking

  More Magazine Interview, December 2010.

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