Quotes of: Defining-moment Keyword

[quoting Kurtz] Willard: In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action - what is often called ruthless - what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be...

Apocalypse Now

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passi...

Annie Besant

Degree actually came to me and asked me if I wanted to be a part of their campaign, and I thought it was just really exciting and important, obviously to my fans, and growing up I had tons of OMG moments. I get to share my own moments through video b...

Ashley Tisdale

Perfect... as it was, it had to be, and little dreams were spinning madly as a flock of birds mid-flight, the single vision of a single moment, a single moment, frozen in time no more. No more did he need, to understand that it was better than any he...

Love

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over ...

Vita Sackville-West

God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me is that my brokenness is...

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Things I learned from a man called “The Nazarene” 1- Being poor does not equal being miserable. 2- People will judge you, but their judgment should not define who you are. 3- Going against what others hold as true is not necessarily a bad thing. ...

Martin Suarez

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.

Chapterhouse: Dune

I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be.

The Choices We Make: A Memoir about Surviving and a Journey to Love & Happiness

He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.

Capital: A Novel

Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?

COUNT

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!

Daily Drive 365

I understand that you want “normal” by what you define it, but normal is what you make it. You could spend a lifetime in the house you grew up in and never once feel normal.

Denial

The difference between where you are now and where you will get to later defines your range of work which you have to be responsible for.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Doctor Sleep

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Existentialism Is a Humanism

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

The Frowny Face Cow