Event Quotes

1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors

People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before… — George Carlin
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web… — Kay Redfield Jamison
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little… — Meg Rosoff
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. — Dalai Lama
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a… — Anais Nin
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger… — ZoÃ« Heller
There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty. — Emma Thompson
Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant — Paulo Coelho
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're… — John Green
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they… — Suzanne Collins
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering… — Bart D. Ehrman
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. — John Berger
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde
We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen… — Primo Levi
Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast. — Chuck Palahniuk
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what… — Jasper Fforde
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages… — Daniel Handler
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. — Lisa Unger
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face… — Roland Barthes
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you,… — Vincent Price
I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had… — Maria V. Snyder
Too bad Einstein’s dead. I’m sure he would have appreciated my latest discovery within the space-time continuum.The closer you are to experiencing a monumental event,… — Susane Colasanti

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