Brief Moments Quotes - Page 3

• They'll kill you for doing this," I breathed in a brief moment when his lips traveled to my neck. "If I don't I'll die anyways.

  Kiera Cass

  Lips, Necks, Moments

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• More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

  Chad Hurley

  People, Stories, Helping

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• When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Lonely, Real, Fall

  Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Live Life, Sadness, Opportunity

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• I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.

  Trevor Noah

  Confusion, People, Would Be

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

  Annie Lennox

  Real, Years, Passionate

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Powerful, Moments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Photography, Art, Views

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• What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

  Morton Feldman

  Art, Six, Moments

  Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”

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• Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

  Rowan Williams

  Brother, Loneliness, Reality

  Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.121, Cowley Publications

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• Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Hypnosis, Self

  "Will Smith The Pursuit of Happyness Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Looks, Fields, Common

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.

  Brian Williams

  Fate, America, Decision

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• You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Two, Uniting, Lasts

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• When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

  Johnny Depp

  Air, Two, People

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• What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Niece, Blood, Years

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2966, Dell

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• Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Real, Grief, Tragedy

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• Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.

  Ken Wilber

  Garden, Self, Religion

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• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Understanding, Suffering

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

  Veronica Roth

  World, Moments, Refuse

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• The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

  Rollo May

  Essence, Spinning, Facts

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.

  Hans Børli

  Ocean, Heart, Islands

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• If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sleep, Thinking, Grieving

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• He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.

  Kim Edwards

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.258, Penguin

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• I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.”

  Paula Poundstone

  Senior, Children, Years

  "Lean, Green Fighting Machine". www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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