Momentous Quotes

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
Strength Man Strong Decision Strong Man Weak Characteristic About Excellence He Between Make Forced Alternatives Fore Always Issues Decide Them Themselves Momentous Chosen Bring
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. Woodrow Wilson
Government Generation People Free Our Our Generation Possibilities Significant Free Government Most China Momentous Awakening Event
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 Our Appropriate Our Lives Find More Only Implications Mostly Were End Than Human Middle Being Stories Being Human Epic Momentous Lives Start
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel. David Novak
Destruction Secular Three Jews State Has-Been Citizenship One-Third Individual Shaped Israel Been Experiences Modernity Acquisition Holocaust Momentous Largely Founding
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
Thought Marked Out Something Always Verge Anticipation Tingle Little Used Special Momentous
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Francis Bacon
Life Art Good Soul Evil Winning Human Human Life Momentous Thing
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. George Will
Argument Dust Consequences Constitutional Seem Dry Momentous
Comrades - We are living in momentous times. James Larkin
Comrades Living Times Momentous
Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. James Wolcott
Life Most Owner Momentous Even Consequence
In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party. Janos Kadar
History People Country Party Every Our Hungarian Join Name Hours Call Devotion Led Which Worker Workers Who Momentous Socialist
For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice. Jay Samit
Work Hard Work Sacrifice Understood Culmination Years Personal Going Experienced Public Hard Milestone Fully Momentous Founders
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it. Jenny Offill
Beautiful Time Me Library Sometimes Will Strike Books Collect Outdated See Through Write Facts Most Call Operation Reference Oh Where Anything Quotes Little Flip Momentous Roulette Chance
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
Work Young Had Making Still Lot Very Prize Personal Done Decisions Momentous Awarded
When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction. Kelly Macdonald
Decision Word Nothing Think Flyer Bit Destined Direction Pick Knew Headed Audition Up Acting Momentous Started
Although England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, possesses momentous constitutional texts and significant statutes, since the 1600s there has been no systematic attempt to codify the powers and limits of the British executive and the rights of those it governs. Linda Colley
Rights Rest Those Possesses Systematic Has-Been Significant Kingdom Constitutional Attempt Since Powers Executive Although Limits Been Texts Governs England Momentous United United Kingdom British
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later. Mark Haddon
World Events Three Year Later Responds Hostage Look Because Years Very Different Fiction Fortune Momentous Recent Two
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous. Mona Simpson
Love Time Problems Become Love Story Once Possible One Of The Problems Write Divorce Austen Than Different Story Jane Jane Austen Little Less Momentous Tolstoy Different Thing Now Thing
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. Moshe Sharett
History Backlash Must Unavoidable Most Make Unexpectedly Which Us Certain Momentous Swiftly Even Chance Presented
A fight with Tony Bellew would be a momentous occasion. He is a good boxer and a good person, and I also have the option to move into the heavyweight division. Oleksandr Usyk
Good Fight Good Person Would Would-Be Division He Also Occasion Boxer Option Person Move Heavyweight Momentous Tony
The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives. Ro Khanna
War People Decision Framers Through Understood Go American Representatives Informed American People Elected Requires Momentous Expressed Consent

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