Event Quotes

1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors

Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you… — Michel Foucault
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only… — Thomas Ligotti
Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection,… — Thomas Wolfe
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe… — James A. Baldwin
So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that… — John Green
On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it… — Deepak Chopra
I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is… — Reif Larsen
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion,… — Charles Yu
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and… — Carson McCullers
There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his… — Andre Breton
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to… — Roald Dahl
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his… — Terry Pratchett
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this… — Jacques Derrida
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of… — Charles Dickens
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. — Neil Gaiman
Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How much of that… — Cassandra Clare
I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up. — Kathy Reichs
I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're… — Kevin Hearne
For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden — Karen Hawkins
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories… — Aldous Huxley
When did having a life become an event you had to schedule? — Karen Marie Moning
In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude. — Rick Warren
It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my… — Elisabeth Elliot

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