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The world's best moment is a calm hour passed In listening to a friend who can talk well.
Consider every moment past A thread from life's frayed mantle cast.
Bien choisir son moment et se taire, serait-ce le seul moyen d'avoir e" tre et habitat? To carefully choose one'smoment and keep quiet, isthis the only way one can be and live?
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human historyand cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment whitethen melts for ever.
La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage. Ce sont les malheureux de la terre. Most people only die at the last moment; others begin earlyand take twenty years and sometimes more. These are the most miserable people on earth.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Eternity was in that moment.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
I am no prophetand here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.
The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract. 306
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time.
Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.
Il y a toujours un moment o u' la curiosite devient un pe che , et le diable s'est toujours mis du co" te des savants. There is always a moment when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always on the side of the learned.
A naked moment in politics.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Um esta sempre no escuro, so no u ltimo derradeiro e que clareiam a sala. Oneisalwaysinthedark, and it isonlyatthelast moment that they turn on the lights in the room.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
The Socialist paperscame out full tothethroat of well- printed matteradmirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from hasteand spiteand hard wordswith a kind of May-day freshness amidst the worryand terror of the moment.
But now that age comes A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, derTod ist auch nur einer. Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.
Was man auch sagen mag, der glu« cklichsteAugenblick des Glu« c klichen ist doch der seines Einschlafens wie der unglu« cklichste des Unglu« cklichen der seines Erwachens. Whatever we may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is that of his falling asleep, just as the unhappiest moment of the unhappy man is that of his awakening.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British Government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.
The history of a battle is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost; but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference.
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is a struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world standsmoment by moment on the razor-edge ofdangerand must be fought forwhether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovelyapparition sent To be a moment's ornament.
Not for a moment could I now behold A smiling sea, and be what I have been.
If I can rejoice for a moment, Death at an early age would still be a long life.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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