Quotes with moment

Quotes 301 till 320 of 410.

  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Robert Wilson The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett The moment you're born you're done for.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Napoleon The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Basil Bunting The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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  • George Orwell The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Vilanch The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Marcel Proust The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Louise Lynn Hay The point of power is always in the present moment.
    Louise Lynn Hay
    American writer of books on personal growth (1926 - 2017)
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  • Arthur Koestler The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Catton The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Albert J. Nock The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Dorothy Nevill The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bobby Rush The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
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  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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