Ordinary Events Quotes
- In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand… — Dinesh D'Souza
- When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we… — Rachel Naomi Remen
- I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks… — Jimmy Santiago Baca
- It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we… — Stephen Covey
- To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume
- [However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and… — William Styron
- Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. — Chuck Palahniuk
- Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to… — Elwyn Brooks White