Phenomenon Quotes

623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature. — Stephen Crane
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and… — Mike Yaconelli
You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that… — Mike Carey
Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails… — Chuck Klosterman
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. — Jules Verne
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. — Shulamith Firestone
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken. — Muriel Barbery
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves,… — Irvin D. Yalom
Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon. — Graham Chapman
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in… — Dan Millman
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. — Marilyn Manson
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
What does she (J. K. Rowling) hope people will take with them about this time? “When all the fuss and hoopla dies away, and when… — Melissa Anelli
There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out… — Steve Toltz
I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not… — D. H. Lawrence
I've never been afraid of the dark. I'm more afraid of the day, of people. I love the night. The solitude. Well, I don't love… — Julie Anne Peters
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane. — Noam Chomsky
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a… — Albert Einstein
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and… — Alan Garner
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all. — William S. Burroughs
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had… — Jennifer Egan
Harry Potter has actually been a very intimate phenomenon, the story of small groups of people acting in ways they shouldn't, doing things they usually… — Melissa Anelli

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