Moment

Famous quotes containing the word moment:

“Then for a moment all there was was size,
Confusion, and a roar that drowned the cries
He raised against the gods in the machine.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
—Tony Benn (b. 1925)

“The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)