Quotes with moment

Quotes 261 till 280 of 410.

  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Seneca The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Viola The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bono The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Pliny the Elder The happier the moment the shorter.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Caitlin Doughty The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Buffalo Bill The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
    DeSylva, Buddy
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Raymond Chandler 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
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Byron Katie The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.
    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Eric Berne The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
    Eric Berne
    Canadian-born psychiatrist (1910 - 1970)
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