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“There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.”

Made Moments Certain Choices Nations Decades Choices Made

Author:George Papandreou

“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.”

Moments Remember Certain Pay Groups Particular Sacred Plant Careful Complicated Obligation Be Careful Reverence Courtesy Homage Superhuman Superhuman Powers Folkways

Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

“I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.”

People Whole Moments Character Remember Certain Opportunity Careers Affected

Author:Austin Peck

“With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.”

Has Beens Moments Certain Ability Fate Karma Chains Free Will Sequence

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I think there is also a certain degree of expectation that's set up by trailers, where even if you know what's going to happen in parts of the film based on the trailer, you almost anticipate and look forward to those moments based on having seen the trailer.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Moments Happens Film Certain Degrees Expectations Anticipate Trailers

Author:Duncan Jones

“Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.”

Men May Moments Certain Every Man Theme Peculiar Complaints Strain Lamentation

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

“It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.”

World Moments Stories Truth Certain Make Sense Truthful

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.”

Knows Feels May Moments Certain Strong Given Fashion Exciting Designer Proportion Historian Theorists Zeitgeist Sensors Pointlessness

Author:Jil Sander

“The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.”

War Moments Certain Fighting Force Results Fate Objects Battle Various Accomplish Critical Combination Flash Reserves Hostile Critical Moments

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“So many people feel that they have to wait for certain experiences in order to feel the emotions they desire. For instance, they don't give themselves permission to feel loved or happy or confident unless a particular set of expectations is met. I'm here to tell you that you can feel any way you choose at any moment in time.”

People Way Giving Feels Moments Motivational Desire Certain Order Waiting Emotion Particular Mets Expectations Instance You Choose Permission Moments In Time

Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.”

Children Moments Certain Choices Responsibility Influence Example Aspect Insanity Your Children

Author:Andy Garcia

“You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back.”

Humans Moments Age Film Certain Realizing Born Gone Grew Moon Speech Grew Up Rockets No Money Nolan

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.”

Sometimes Moments Helping Seems Certain Painting Miracle Daring Intervention

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.”

People World Way Two Ends Moments Certain Song Forget Wonderful Amount Ultimate My Way Frank Armstrong Karaoke Wonderful World

Author:Dhani Jones

“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”

Mind Moments Feelings Certain Fall Women Imagination Pure Fairs Strive Goddess Nests Boyish

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.”

Way Ideas Moments Moving Certain Song Voice Surprise Moving Forward No Idea Performing Bob Listeners Dylan Wraps Surprise Me

Author:Greil Marcus

“Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.”

May Mean Moments Used Certain Knowing Creating Dimensions

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.”

Art Moments Light Certain Art Is Theme Retelling

Author:George Lucas

“A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.”

Men Moments Artist Certain Effort Objects Appearance

Author:Edgar Degas

“I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things.”

People Ifs Looks Art I Can Moments Certain Waiting Position Get Away

Author:Damien Hirst

“The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.”

Whole Moments Lasts Certain Results Enjoyed Labour Length Consumed

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.”

Reason Moments Jobs Certain Humanity Cutting

Author:Kylie Minogue

“The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.”

Kind Ideas Moments Certain Materials Development Intuition Psychological Realization Creating Beauty

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain time in the evening. I let everything build up to that moment when they're all in ecstasy. The crowd builds up and you have to watch it that you don't stop it. You start off saying you've heard that tonight's going to be a great night; then you begin the whole pitch and keep it rolling.”

Trying Whole Moments Night Certain Watches Heard Atheism Crowds Positive Atheism Evening Tonight That Moment Ecstasy Preacher Rolling High Points Great Night

Author:Marjoe Gortner

“Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.”

“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.”

“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.”

“Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.”

People Moments Form Certain Next Laughing Comedy Cry Expression Theater Combination Making People Laugh Combining Astounded

Author:Aleksey Igudesman

“Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.”

Children Matter Moments Might Certain Next Sleep Gone Forever Seeing Bears Ducks Backwards Next Day Hounds

Book:And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

Source: And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

“at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.”

Moments Certain Social Fire Fit Leaving Proceeding Sociability

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.”

Feels Self Moments Facts Might Certain Choices Can Do Accepting Economy Humility Amount Indulgence Self Indulgence

Author:Charlie Huston

“I don't believe in dieting, I don't believe in having certain moments in your life where you're healthy and then moments when you're like, "I'm going to eat whatever I want." It's just finding what works for your body and always eating healthy.”

Want Believe Moments Body Certain Healthy Findings Eating Don't Believe Your Body Dieting Eating Healthy Always Eating

Author:Misty Copeland

“If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.”

Ifs Want Persons Has Beens Stills Moments Seems Joy Certain Dark Worry Greater Letters Relief That Moment Elixir Elixir Of Life

Author:Sei Shonagon

“She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.”

Children Moments Lasts Certain Order Amount Rope

Book:Innocence and experience: stories

Source: Innocence and experience: stories

“The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.”

Ifs Moments Able Past Certain Rounds Seeds Live In The Present

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.”

People Years Doe Moments Certain Happened Things Happen Uplifting Strengthening

Author:Aretha Franklin