Damage Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image “Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Damage Events Influence Lifetime
Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable. — Bill Loguidice Copy Share Image
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the people we have known for a short amount of time have the biggest impact on our lives, even more than those we… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
After every event there is what is known as the aftermath and depending on the event will determine how it is people will take… — Collin Mitchell Copy Share Image
Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room. — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it,… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to one another's significance. That was a small lesson I learned on the journey. What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series of notes-- then you should never have heard him at all. He was never recorded. He stayed away while others moved into wax history,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and… — Anonymous Copy Share
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence… — Anonymous Copy Share
