Events Quotes · Page 22

“Reality exists in the mind of each. The senses are input devices for incoming data.”

— Toba Beta

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

— Craig Groeschel

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

— Tracy K. Smith

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

— Dervla Murphy

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

— Narendra Modi

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

— Jodi Picoult

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

— Anonymous

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

— Elie Wiesel

Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind…

— Nhat Hanh

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

— James A. Haught

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

— Steven Popkes

Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the…

— Tim LaHaye

No. 1 music event in 1998? 'Weird Al gets LASIK to cure his myopia. At the same time, he grows out his…

— Janet Varney

I've been a waitress for events, but a lady at the Victoria hotel in Yorkshire showed me how to do it properly.

— Vicky Krieps

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would…

— Sandra Cisneros

There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history.

— Phil Scott

The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection…

— Anonymous

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather…

— Denise Duhamel

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and…

— Anonymous

I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in…

— Mark Helprin

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out…

— Paul Feig

We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in…

— Henry D. Taylor

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the…

— Nora Ephron

We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to…

— Annie Dillard

“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But…

— Beatrix Campbell

INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react…

— Susan Cain

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a…

— Henri Bergson

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as…

— Martin Buber

The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war:…

— George Packer

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

— Antoine Rivarol

To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

— Jodi Picoult

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

— Johnny Weir

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

— Thomas Hobbes

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

— Julius Caesar

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

— Barry Lyga

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

— Jess Walter