Top 155 Momentous Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.
But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
To the patient, any operation is momentous.
Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.
The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.
The greatest and most momentous fact which
the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous
...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.
Comrades - We are living in momentous times!
Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.
What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.
She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives.
Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.
The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.
A fight with Tony Bellew would be a momentous occasion. He is a good boxer and a good person, and I also have the option to move into the heavyweight division.
The Memorial Dedication was a momentous occasion
Comrades - We are living in momentous times.
In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.
I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.
I'll never forget the first moment I stepped on a Broadway stage. It was in Grease, and I knew it was momentous. My parents were there, and I got into a cab with them afterward and started crying.
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.
Every moment has a momentous gift for you.
You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
