Douglas Brinkley Quotes

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Moments. All gathering towards this one.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

This is a turning point in human history.

This is ah historic moment from which there can be no turning back.

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and exhilarating, is that we don't know yet which way the door will swing.

'Breathless' was an important milestone in my life.

We always have that one special moment that could be anything that changes our lives forever.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

We've witnessed history in the making.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

When history calls, history calls.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.

Once a century the world is divided into before and after.

A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life.

My life and career can be divided into pre- and post- 'Paruthiveeran.'