Famous quotes containing the word moment:
“Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.”
—Ardel Wray, and Edward Dien. Jacques Tourneur. Cemetery Gatekeeper, The Leopard Man, talking to Consuelo (1943)
“The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama.... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.”
—Haniel Long (1888–1956)
“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 (1803–1882)