Quotes with moment

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  • Cyril Connolly A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • William Butler Yeats A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Herbert Spencer A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Harry S. Truman A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Brit Marling A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Queen Elizabeth II All my possessions for a moment of time.
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Bill Bryson All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything On the moment of creation; page 10
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Brandi Chastain And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Bobby Ray Inman And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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  • Mark Twain Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Benchley Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Barry Gibb As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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