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Momentous Quotes (page 153)

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene Edward Young
At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better Barack Obama
Napoleon Bonaparte quote: "The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory"
The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory Napoleon Bonaparte
David Bowie quote: "I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine..."
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings... David Bowie
That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all. Ann Patchett
Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences? nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon. . Eric Hoffer
...there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus that was necessary, the warmth that we cannot generate ourselves. Marcel Proust
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered..."
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee...' -Jesus the Christ Joseph Smith, Jr.
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. Kurt Vonnegut
Jack Kerouac quote: "and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest..."
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was Jack Kerouac
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The longest day must have its close? the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. Alexander Dumas
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. Louis L'Amour

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