Event Quotes

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. (Norman Mailer)
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. View quote
Dan Quayle
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. View quote
Robert Orben
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. View quote
Bob Newhart
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. View quote
George Boole
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. View quote
Thornton Wilder
An event... upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. View quote
Edmund Burke
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. (Louisa May Alcott)
For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance. View quote
Bridget Riley
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. View quote
George Steiner
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. View quote
Hannah Arendt
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. View quote
William James
And the final event to himself Mr. Burke has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. View quote
Thomas Paine
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed. (Robert Browning)
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there. View quote
Saul Alinsky
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. View quote
Jane Austen