#momento

Comrades - We are living in momentous times. ↗

— James Larkin

#living #momentous #times

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see. ↗

— Joan Didion

#momentos #nostalgia #nostalgia

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. ↗

— Pythagoras

#evil #good #human #human life #life

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#evil #good #human #human life #life

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#anticipation #i #i always #little #marked

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#alternatives #always #between #bring #characteristic

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#beginning #being #being human #end #epic

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. ↗

— Robert Welch

#comparatively #generalizations #had #his #impact

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#decisions #done #had #i #lot