“[singing] Oh, if life were made of moments, even now and then a bad one—but if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one.”— James Lapine, Baker's Wife, Emily Blunt, imdb.com
“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.”— Mark Schwahn, Lucas Scott, Chad Michael Murray, imdb.com
“Most of our lives are a series of images, they pass us by like towns on a highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens and we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever.”— Mark Schwahn, Lucas Scott, Chad Michael Murray, imdb.com
“Take lots of pictures. Not of sights. Don't take pictures of buildings. Take pictures of moments, because that's what matters.”— Todd Harthan, Andy Berman, Shawn Spencer, James Roday, imdb.com
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”— Aristotle Onassis, amazon.com
“I love this moment so much, I want to have sex with it.”— Tad Quill, Gabrielle Allan, Perry Cox, John C. McGinley, imdb.com
“I tell my students that life’s biggest moments — car accidents, graduations, even deaths — may not be the best fodder for their writing. I tell them the most significant moments happen on a random Tuesday.”— Kathleen Volk Miller, nytimes.com
“I can't tell you about moments because I wasn't into that. I just played every day and enjoyed what I was doing. When I made a great catch it was just routine. I didn't worry about it. Winning was important. Winning.”— Willie Mays, baseball-almanac.com
“Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.”— Stephen Sondheim, imdb.com
“Once in a while will you dream Of the moments I shared with you Moments before we two Drifted apart?”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are disconte…”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.”— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org
“We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon ou…”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.org
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”— Sabaa Tahir, amazon.com
“While washing dishes, you might be thinking about the tea you’re going to drink afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes. When you are washing the…”— Thich Nhat Hanh, amazon.com
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after.... It was a test of courage, of strength.”— Sabaa Tahir, amazon.com