Event Quotes

1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors

At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then… — Chelsea Handler
They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I… — Haven Kimmel
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection. — Kij Johnson
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to… — Curtis Sittenfeld
The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but,… — Robert Musil
Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible… — Daniel Handler
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier… — John Updike
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable… — Al Gore
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity.… — Robin Hobb
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the… — Theodore Roosevelt
A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though… — Dave Barry
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this… — David Hume
The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on… — N. T. Wright
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did… — Jane Austen
They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it… — Arundhati Roy
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event. — Milan Kundera
How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from… — Timothy Zahn
America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace… — James Ellroy
...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention… — Barbara Kingsolver
Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your… — Alan Moore
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer,… — Marsha Norman

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