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She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.
If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.
The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
All the lives we ever lead are only dreams, these walking moments, that look so solid to you when you consider yourself awake, are just dreams.
Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.
The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.
As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.
Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.
No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.
Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments.
The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious moments.
This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.
For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
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.
A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.
I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.
I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.
I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.
God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.
The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.
Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.
I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.