Quote by Milan Kundera

“Our responses to events are far more significant than the events themselves”

— Sarah Napthali

“confirmatory events are in fact much more memorable than non-confirmatory events.”

— Thomas Gilovich

“How could something as significant to one person mean so little to another?”

— Eva Rice

“I don’t really think it would be in my best interest to disclose the events that took place today,”

— R.L. Mathewson

“This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever.”

— Douglas Adams

“It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.”

— Elie Wiesel

“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.”

— Patricia Moyes

“You can’t invent a historically memorable event, unless it really happened.”

— Shulem Deen

“It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....”

— Burton Egbert Stevenson

“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run…

— David Malouf

“It is not always the events that touch us personally that affect us the most.”

— François Mauriac

“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.”

— Per Bak