Famous quotes containing the word moment:
“April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter,
But, the moment after,
Weep thy golden tears!”
—Sir William Watson (18581935)
“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I dont know Whoor whatput the question, I dont know when it was put. I dont even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someoneor Somethingand from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (19051961)