Event Quotes

1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors

although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party… — E. Lockhart
No matter how difficult something you or a loved one faces, it should not take over your life and be the center of all your… — Richard G. Scott
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most… — Richard P. Feynman
[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in… — Elizabeth Goudge
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in… — Victor Hugo
The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived… — James A. Baldwin
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less… — Hermann Hesse
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. — James A. Baldwin
I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a… — Maria V. Snyder
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. — Kurt Vonnegut
When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality. When the fight… — Tea Obreht
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously… — Stefan Zweig
weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. — Stephen King
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of… — William Gibson
I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the… — Robin Hobb
He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born. — Karen Marie Moning
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel… — Jorge Luis Borges
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t… — John Irving
It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning… — Jim Butcher
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives. — William P. Young
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one? — Joseph Heller
And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that… — Jonathan Franzen

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