Top 1200 Ordinary Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Even the most tragic moments can have moments of comedy.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

We live in a world alive with holy moments. We need only take the time to bring these moments into the light.

It's normal that you have good moments and bad moments - it is how you deal with it.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Even the bad moments, the tough ones, I'm proud of them, too. Those moments get you better, smarter, make you grow.

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This resonates with ordinary people, as long as we speak ordinary language and don't come across as elitists.

I find it difficult to write with reference to the most memorable moments in film, when for me the best moments in films are truly irreducible.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you.

Moments can change games; moments can create a run.

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

I definitely live for the small moments and the big moments.

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

I think that most players enjoy playing football, but, like in everything, there are good moments and bad moments.

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.

Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

The big moments for me are moments when I can actually contribute.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

I'm somebody that definitely thrives on pressure and I thrive in those moments where that's going to be tested and that's what I prepare myself for is the most intense of moments.

Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.

At 15 the change from a town of 2,000 to a city of four million was huge. There were good moments and, I'm not going to lie, bad moments.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.

My childhood had extremely difficult moments and some trauma but there were also amazing moments and times of pure happiness.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.

Moments of compassion are the most holy moments of life.

There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, where I stop and look around, and it seems too arduous to go on. It isn't, of course.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.