“Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.” PeopleMomentsAbleSituationMagicCamerasSavedIntimateTrustedObserversRealisedIntimate Moments Author:Ryan McGinley
“I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.” ThinkingCountryMomentsGovernmentDifficultSupportOfficeCommitmentObviousSavedOur CountryEuroMembershipDifficult Moments Author:Lucas Papademos
“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.” IfsThinkingHumansWarEnoughMomentsPainGraceCircumstancesBlessedSavedNarrativeDescriptionCatastropheAdequateSequenceOutrageInexplicable Book:Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World Source: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
“Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.” EnoughMomentsFeelingsChallengesFoodCookingSavedHorribleMiserableCulinaryMediocrityDoomConsumingStasis Author:Julie Powell
“The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"” IfsMenWantMomentsFactsSidesBrainLaughingComedyCuttingStupidUltimateProfessionSavedObjectivesLuxurySurgeonsBrain Surgeons Author:Brian Regan