Top 1200 Moments Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

It’s only human to have low moments in life because if you don’t, then you won’t feel the high, exciting times.

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.

I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they have bigness in them.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

I really do think inspiration comes from day-to-day life. I think there's things that pique our interest - not necessarily aha! moments - but things that just kinda make you raise your eyebrows. And those are often the moments that are the seeds of inspiration. Sometimes they're in a great conversation with friends, sometimes they're things you see live, something you read, a movie trailer you watch... I think inspiration is kind of laid out there. One thing we have to practice is recognizing when it happens, and recording that moment so we can come back to it.

I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.

I played 112 times for Uruguay and experienced some of the greatest moments in my life representing my country.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

There are moments in your life where you're like I have arrived. I'm here and I'm living and I'm present. And working with Jean Paul Gaultier was one of them.

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.

When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

My whole life, I've been preparing for moments and you can only know how you're going to react once you're in them.

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

Hearing that I had a 3 percent chance of ever having kids was one of the more devastating moments in my life.

I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

There are always those moments in football - and life in general - which can decide the path and the route you go down.

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

I love those moments - the homework, the school run, when I get to chat to other mums. That's real life.

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

In the Himalayas, I spent some of the most exhilarating moments of my life, shooting white water rapids in a kayak.

Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey.

It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.