Quotes with moment

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• The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

  Raymond Chandler
  American writer (1888 - 1959)
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• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• 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
  British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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• The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

  Barbara de Angelis
  American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• The moment of change is the only poem.

  Adrienne Rich
  American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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• The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

  Vic Braden
  American tennis player (1929 - 2014)
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• The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

  Carol Ann Duffy
  British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

  Martina Navratilova
  American Tennis player (1956 - )
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• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  Haniel Long
  American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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• The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

  Brene Brown
  American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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• The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

  Benjamin Tucker
  American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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• The moment the 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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• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

  Mahatma Gandhi
  Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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• The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

  Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture

  Bell Hooks
  American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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• The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That's when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they'll do it.

  Burnie Burns
  American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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• The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

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  Salman Rushdie
  Engels writer (1947 - )
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• 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 transform.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• embarrassment
• enlightenment
• possibilities
• probabilities
• vulnerability
• extraordinary

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