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Momentous Quotes (page 97)

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky. James Baldwin
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you... Your words are my food, your breath is my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt
On Egdon there was no absolute hour of the day. The time at any moment was a number of varying doctrines professed by the different hamlets, some of them having originally grown up from a common root, and then become divided by secession, some having been alien from the beginning. West Egdon believed in Blooms-End time, East Egdon in the time of the Quiet Woman Inn. Grandfer Cantle's watch had numbered many followers in years gone by, but since he had grown older faiths were shaken. Thus, the... Thomas Hardy
We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born. Carl Jung
Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride-pride at his own humility-will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt-and so on, for as many stages as you please. C. S. Lewis
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. Charles Dickens
Suzanne Collins quote: "I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the..."
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go. Suzanne Collins
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile. William Makepeace Thackeray
J. M. Coetzee quote: "This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let..."
This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let your attention wander for a moment! J. M. Coetzee
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me. Francoise Sagan
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are..."
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse. Neil Gaiman
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight. Harold Nicolson
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and..."
For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone. Chuck Palahniuk
Martina Navratilova quote: "The moment of victory is too short to live for that alone."
The moment of victory is too short to live for that alone. Martina Navratilova

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