Event Quotes
1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors
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When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life
— Srully Blotnick
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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its…
— Ray Kurzweil
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The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which…
— Alan Watts
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Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The most remarkable feature…
— Unknown Author
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Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone…
— Brené Brown
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My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I…
— Andrew Jackson
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for…
— Mark Twain
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Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal…
— Jimmy Carter
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Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The…
— Rajneesh
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The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you...you…
— Unknown Author
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The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event,…
— David Eddings
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Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem…
— David Suzuki
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We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
— John Perry Barlow
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Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get…
— Carolina Kluft
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The World Cup is a truly international event.
— John Motson
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It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of…
— Michael Arad
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The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an…
— James Agate
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A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier…
— Jane McGonigal
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Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was…
— Leonard Shlain
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Change is a process not an event.
— Barbara Johnson
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a…
— Yann Martel
Who Wrote These Event Quotes
1,100 authors contributed a total of 1,358 Event Quotes, led by these top contributors: