Moments Quotes - Page 13

• Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.

  Larry Sultan

  Photography, Reality, Thinking

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• The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the moment of exposure, does not see very far.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Say Anything, Looks, Facts

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• The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Zero, Past

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• There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After my next birthday, I will never again be the age I am right now. After midnight tonight, today will be part of history. Someday I'll be dying and I'll wish I'd done all the things I want to do now. Someday I'll be dead and I won't be able to do anything. But today, right now, I'm alive. And yet I'm writing nonsense on the back of my literature book. But I'm alive. And yet I'm just sitting here. But I'm alive.

  Ryan Miller

  Book, Writing, Wish

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• Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

  Carl Jung

  Genius, Mankind, Hangman

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.255, Princeton University Press

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• When I come residence from an evening out with my honey and my make-up's just a little smudged. I have many moments when I really feel lovely. It's all about having that inside confidence.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Lovely, Honey, Evening

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• Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Reality, Creating

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• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Long, Giving

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• Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

  Nora Roberts

  Together, Bounds

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.224, Penguin

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• To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

  Frederick Buechner

  Bored, Cold, Shoulders

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• The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

  Frederick Buechner

  Miracle, Everyday, Sacred

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 21, 2016

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• I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Demand, Facts, Pivotal Moments

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creative, Evidence

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• The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, World, Want

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Practice, Next Steps, Hours

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• Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Self, Smoking

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• Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Mother, Father, Mistake

  Ernest Borgnine (2009). “Ernie: The Autobiography”, p.296, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.

  Surya Das

  Artist, Sheep, Dancing

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• What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

  Agnes de Mille

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Conscious, Uninvited

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• I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

  Jools Holland

  Kings, Kissing, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  That Moment, Standing

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• One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

  Alan Cohen

  Pain, Years, Guilt

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• I don't have the proudest moment in football.

  Darrell Royal

  Football, Proudest Moments

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• You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.

  Keith Richards

  Baby, Wings, People

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