Moment

Famous quotes containing the word moment:

“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“What a vast fraternity it is,—that of ‘Hearts that Ache.’ For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.”
—Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886)