Event Quotes
1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors
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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
— Heinz Pagels
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When in our minds we pre-live our marriage, we help to determine the kind of person that we would like to be when that event…
— Sterling W Sill
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Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.
— Steve Goodman
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Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
— Shaun White
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X Games, it's an event but it's still ... it's a show. I try to put on the best show possible, ... I'm thrilled. This…
— Travis Pastrana
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Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as…
— Fernand Braudel
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Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined.…
— Caroline Knapp
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To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us,…
— Reinaldo Arenas
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We have arrived at socialized medicine in America. I do not report this as either a good or bad event but simply as something that…
— Robert J. Samuelson
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The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
— Bruce Lee
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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an…
— Andy Grove
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We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to…
— Frederick Wiseman
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Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people…
— Eileen O'Brien
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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter…
— Daniel Quinn
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The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st…
— Unknown Author
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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without…
— Harold Brodkey
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In Luke ... receiving the Holy Spirit is the way that those who already believe in Christ are empowered to serve Him. .... It's more…
— Larry Christenson
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The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can…
— Unknown Author
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I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and…
— George H. W. Bush
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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases…
— Warren Buffett
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We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is…
— Henry D. Taylor
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