Significant Moments Quotes

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.

If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.

Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.