However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. – Helen Dunmore
Lives are changed by a moment’s listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. – George A. Smith
Dieting on New Year’s Day isn’t a good idea as you can’t eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. – Helen Fielding
I sound like a crazy person… but I feel when a piano is happy, and I feel when they find that moment to be alive. I want them to remember me. – Hiromi Uehara
Because the Savior is a resurrected and glorified being, He is not physically with every one of His servants at every moment. But He is perfectly aware of them and their circumstance and able to intervene with His power. – Henry B. Eyring
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women’s movement. I didn’t know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation. – Grace Paley
Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you’re going to do carefully, and then be in the moment. – Gail Kelly
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. – Hunter S. Thompson
It’s a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel. – Graydon Carter
If I’d have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It’s a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment. – Herb Brooks
There’s something interesting about playing live; you’re in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial. – Herb Alpert
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. – Herbert Spencer
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. – Herbert Simon
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. – Helen Hunt Jackson
It doesn’t matter what odds are on paper or what’s happened before. It matters what happens that moment. – Holly Holm
The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we’ve run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don’t like needful moments and therefore we resist them. – Guy Finley
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It’s a conscious embrace of a contradiction. – Godfrey Reggio
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate. – Harmon Killebrew
I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn’t get off the ground. – Herb Kelleher
There’s a scary moment when you realise you’re no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you’ve been a successful young person. That’s followed, of course, by the realisation that you’re actually the oldest person in the room. – Helen Mirren
You can practice to learn a technique, but I’m more interested in conceiving of something in the moment. – Herbie Hancock
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it’s both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made. – Georges Simenon
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn’t thought about. At that moment he’s alive and you leave it to him. – Graham Greene
