Best moments & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”

“I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.”

Years Moments Parent Five Mom My Mom Hips Five Years

Author:Kay Panabaker

“I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.”

Thinking Want Years Firsts Made Book Moments Causes Crime Particular First Time Punishment Crime And Punishment

Author:Ron Rash

“I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.”

Years Moments Felt Difficult Careers Comfortable Seven Grass Seven Years Difficult Times Difficult Moments

Author:Marat Safin

“Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.”

Years Moments Government Clear Doors Research University Productive Partnership Federal Government Mit

Author:Charles M. Vest

“A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Moments Together Secret Five Share Grew Members Grew Up Casts Five Years Working Together Quarters Secret Life Best Moments Cast Members

Author:Shailene Woodley

“Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.”

Years Wells Littles Has Beens Important Moments Asks Attention Leader Style Female Paid Critical Right Questions Woman Leader Critical Moments Leadership Style

Author:Charlotte Bunch

“I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.”

Years Believe Moments Kids Lasts Night Walks Acting Four Pushing Four Years Buttons Embarrassed Last Night Nickelodeon

Author:Nia Long

“You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.”

Ifs Years Mean Hard Enough Moments Jobs Lasts Steps Do The Best Best Job Through The Years

Author:Oliver Stone

“You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.”

Years Moments Life Happiness Moments Of Happiness Small Moments

Author:Donatella Versace

“There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.”

Ifs Years Moments Feelings Used Rooms Teacher Conscious Years Ago Shoes Phrases Old Man Professors Mentor Using Me Eerie Mouthpiece Trotting

Author:Abraham Verghese

“The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.”

Years Looks Moments Jobs Emotional That Moment

Author:Colum McCann

“The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever... I love it.”

Knows World Years Moments Given Adventure Russia Around The World Ran Family And Friends

Author:John Travolta

“Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.”

Years Moments Seems Silence Eternal Noisy

Author:William Wordsworth

“Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”

Love Years Moments Spiritual Love Is Generations Offspring Affinity Courtship Spiritual Love

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.”

Knows Years Moments Enjoy Generations Right Now Performers Younger Generation

Author:Sheryl Crow

“I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me.”

Knows Years Moments Film Artist Saws Drama Dramatic Abstract

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.”

Years Moments Names Heard Rumor

Author:Richard Gere

“I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.”

Years Looks Whole Moments Remember Music Week Months Ten Photograph Capture

Author:Keren Ann

“In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.”

Ifs Years Moments Faces Fall Saws Minutes Dying Wall Thousand Buddhist Caves Acid Persona Drunkenness Seventeen One Minute Seventeen Years Old Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?”

“The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.”

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough.”

Men Years Hard Moments Political Life Is Tough Decent Consultants Decent Man

Author:Evan Thomas

“I had horrible moment at the end of a very successful day, where I realized I just felt nothing about it and I didn't care. And I had that fear that I would, because I was successful at it, that I would be there 20, 30 years down the road, doing this job and just not caring about what I did.”

Years Ends Moments Would Be Care Jobs Felt Successful Caring I Realized Horrible Down The Road Not Caring Successful Day

Author:Dan Povenmire

“Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.”

Should Years Moments Three Four Retiring Four Years Should I

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.”

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.”

Years Ideas Moments Age Humanity Next Found Energy Grows Middle Century Consequence Mysterious Broke Odd Realms Fifty Chemistry Disorder Middle Ages Mold

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation.”

Knows Years Firsts Wells Littles Moments Faces Lying Mother Father Cold I Realized Familiar Realization Vacation Showers Familiar Faces

Author:Diet Eman

“We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.”

Years Firsts Humans Moments Body Human Beings Technology Thousand Hundred First Time Evolve Thousand Years Inseparable

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.”

Thinking Years Wells May Long Moments Pieces Twenties Lifetime Work Out Immortality Long Life

Author:Judith Weir

“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.”

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass”

Years Sometimes Moments Together Joy Imagine Blind Fortune Weather Grass Bless Honour Fickle Withered Pudding Dames Years Together Tipsy

Book:Lillian: And Other Poems

Source: Lillian: And Other Poems

“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.”

“We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.”

Thinking Years Moments Waiting Levels Happened Minutes Car Sitting Police Prison Injustice Determine Our Future Officers Your Future Purses Police Officer Elevators

Author:Denzel Washington

“Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.”

“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.”

People Ifs Years Kind Different Hard Moments Process Chance Changed Wind Blow Scary Breathe Boat Lakes Different Kinds Canoeing

Author:Seth Godin

“For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.”

Ifs Years Moments Acting Hell Achieve Judging Obstacles Enormous Zone Pits Confronting Faceless Happy Place

Book:An Improvised Life: A Memoir

Source: An Improvised Life: A Memoir

“I designed a bench in a few moments. But, of course, it took me 25 years to do it.”

Years Moments Courses Benches

Author:Mario Bellini

“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Ifs Years Humans Kind May Moments Past Left Black Seeing Fit Ten Fifty Sixty Memorial Mock

Author:Eric Rucker Eddison

“Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease. Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence.”

“French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris”

“In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you're just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless.”

Knows Way Years Important Enough Moments Kids Young Fun Term Youth Regret Right Now Aging Extras This Day Our Future Your Future Priceless Invest In Yourself

Author:Victoria Moran

“Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.”

World Feels Years May Reason Moments Lasts Sports Term Born Lucky Obvious Get Up Timing Right Place Right Moment Jocks

Author:Bob Cousy

“The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more...I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way.”

“It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.”

People Knows Years Moments Funny Past Know How Groups Stealing Sabotage Years Past

Author:LaToya London

“When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised.”

People Thinking Years Looks Moments Simple Millions Gone Sitting Miracle Incredibles That Moment Ancestor Delicious Sauce Cocktails Forks Hmm Shrimp

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I am going on eight years of marriage, and when it comes to communication, I believe you should always communicate in a time of peace. As a general rule, never try to communicate in the heat of the moment.”

Should Trying Years Believe Moments I Believe Communication Communicate Eight Heat Years Of Marriage Heat Of The Moment

Author:Tony Gaskins

“I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that.”

Want Years Moments Helping Past Cutting Football League Pockets Apartment Grounded Reminders Defining Bucks My Past

Author:Dwayne Johnson

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