Right Moment Quotes - Page 2

• We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Expression, Greek

  "The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams". Book by Carl Jung, p. 110, 1958.

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• He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

  Haruki Murakami

  Goodbye, Judging, Trying

  "Hunting Knife" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2003.

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• I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Perspective

  "On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis". Interview with Grace Lee Boggs, www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• Who has words at the right moment?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Moments

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Judging, People

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.32

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• Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

  Jonathan Schell

  Action, Moments, Climate Change

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• A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mistake, Moments, Blunders

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• Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Labyrinth, Lightning, Obscurity

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.15 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Math, Science

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• The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

  Earl Warren

  Waiting, Moments, Reason

  Testimony on Internment of people of Japanese Ancestry before the House Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration (Tolan Committee), 1941.

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• The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hair, Moments, Missed You

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• Because everything we do and everything we are is in jeopardy, and because the peril is immediate and unremitting, every person is the right person to act and every moment is the right moment to begin.

  Jonathan Schell

  Inspirational, Moments, Peril

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• The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Mistake, Thinking

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

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• The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

  Alice James

  Lying, Failure, Luck

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

  Carl Honore

  Motivation, Inspiration, Exercise

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• You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.

  Logan Henderson

  Waiting, Might, Moments

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• I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.

  Louise Erdrich

  Reading, Book, Fall

  Louise Erdrich (2014). “Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

  Bill Bryson

  Order, Quests, Tiny

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 09, 2013

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• I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.

  Lisa Mangum

  Believe, People, Giving

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• Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Mother, Children, Able

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• Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

  Horace

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Irony, Moments, Wrong Things

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• If she were (looking into my eyes), she’d have seen how absolutely floored I was the first time I finally, truly saw her. The clouds moved at just the right moment, fully lighting her face by the moon. She was dazzlingly beautiful. Underneath thick lashes were eyes blue as ice, something cool to balance out the flames in her hair. I felt a strange flutter in my chest, like the glow of a fireplace or the warmth of the afternoon. It stayed there for a moment, playing with my pulse.

  Kiera Cass

  Beautiful, Eye, Moon

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• ...Every moment is the right moment.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Time Management, Management, Moments

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• I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

  Nick Cave

  Comedy, Moments, Reaching

  "Outback outlaws". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2006.

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