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Momentous Quotes (page 77)

Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered. Arthur C. Clarke
All of this came to me in the space of a lingering moment. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I like it here. I like it more than I can tell you. Bill Bryson
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "To him, even the momentary was momentous."
To him, even the momentary was momentous. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. Henry David Thoreau
The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future, without analysis, without suppositions or surmises, without doubts and without questioning. It was an instant of full, direct, purely instinctive joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy on her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. E. M. Forster
Wangari Maathai quote: "There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments."
There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments. Wangari Maathai
There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to. Jodi Picoult
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection"
A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection Chuck Palahniuk
Mother Teresa quote: "There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing..."
There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you. Mother Teresa
I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off. Bill Bryson
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right..."
What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? Hunter S. Thompson
I have a notion that, at big fires, a moment of extreme suspense can sometimes occur, when the jets of water slacken off, the firemen no longer climb, no one moves a muscle. Without a sound, a high black wall of masonry cants over up above, the fire blazing behind it, and, without a sound, leans, about to topple. Everyone stands waiting, shoulders tensed, faces drawn in around their eyes, for the terrible crash. That is how the silence is here.- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rainer Maria Rilke
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the..."
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home. Jeffrey Eugenides
Rhett glanced over his shoulder as if there had been a sound. His eyes met hers, and surprise stiffened his lithe body. For a long immeasurable moment the two of them looked at each other while the space between them widened. Then blandness smoothed Rhett's face as he touched two fingers to his hat brim in salute. Scarlett lifted her hand. Alexandra Ripley

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