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As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese
I’m coming back in … and it’s the saddest moment of my life. Ed White, first American spacewalk Gemini 4 mission 3 June 1965
In everyone’s life there are real moments when the world seems to stand still. A second seems like a thousand years. A single heartbeat becomes an infinity. Rarer still are moments when not just one person but a whole nation stops, holds it breath, hopes, prays. When dreams unite for a split second, a decisive moment when everything could change. One Night in Turin, opening commentary, 2010
‘Every moment must count.’ Inside The Mind of Leonardo starring Peter Capaldi, Sky Arts 2013
A shag is just a shag; but a moment you will always have. Rab C Nesbitt s8e3: Commons, BBC 1997
There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. Jim Carrey, 60 Minutes, November 2004
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? T S Eliot, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, 1917
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
Be remembered; involved with past and future. T S Eliot, Four Quartets: Burnt Norton, 1935
The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have been. ibid. East Coker, 1940
For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of time,
The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts. ibid. ‘The Dry Salvages’, 1941
What moments divine, what rapture serene. Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine, 1935
some moments are nice, some are
nicer, some are even worth
writing
about. Charles Bukowski, War All the Time
If the whole world I once could see
On free soil stand, with the people free
Then to the moment might I say
Linger awhile ... so fair thou art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
O aching time! O moments big as years. John Keats, Hyperion: A Fragment
There’s not enough time in the day to have a special moment with everyone. The Office US s7e23: Goodbye, Michael II, Michael’s advice to employees, NBC 2011
You have the leading arm of Tommy Smith – his right arm raised. And you have the left arm of John Carlos and it forms that nice arc shape that shows the unity of black America. So it becomes an aesthetic moment. Professor Ben Carrington
I think that was a moment of cool panic there. Ron Atkinson, football match commentary
I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose! Oscar Wilde