Event Quotes

1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors

The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the… — Shelby Foote
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event… — William Faulkner
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. — Carl Jung
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one… — J. G. Ballard
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards… — Jeanette Winterson
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that… — Clive Barker
An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center… — Bruno Schulz
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if… — Douglas Adams
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their… — Chuck Palahniuk
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. — George Bernard Shaw
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of… — John Irving
Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today? — John C. Maxwell
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette… — Sloane Crosley
There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are… — George A. Sheehan
Revolution is not a one time event. — Audre Lorde
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad… — James Redfield
The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our… — James Redfield
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. — Corrie Ten Boom
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds,… — Thomas Merton
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal

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