Event Quotes

#1. My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there ... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo. - Author: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#2. Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. - Author: Tracy K. Smith

#3. The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance. - Author: Laura Mullen

#4. Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter. - Author: Marcus Aurelius

#5. The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon. - Author: Fred Lebow

#6. Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup - Author: Gertrude Stein

#7. 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. - Author: Louisa May Alcott

#8. I struggled to stay on the pace there in the back half. But, at the end of the day I wanted to win this race. The Millrose is a prestigious event and it's definitely something I wanted to do in my career. - Author: Kim Conley

#9. By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize. - Author: Marilyn Ferguson

#10. Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.' - Author: James Randi

#11. The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized. - Author: Thomas E. Mann

#12. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait. - Author: Michael Josephson

#13. I'm going to the main event of Wrestlemania! Where're you going? - Author: Randy Orton

#14. There is, and can be, no cause of a historical event except the one cause of all causes. But - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#15. Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history. - Author: John G. Lake

#16. All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not. - Author: Doris Lessing

#17. The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event. - Author: Aaron Siskind

#18. Novikov self-consistency principle, which states that any event that would cause a paradox has a zero probability of happening. - Author: John McWilliams

#19. Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event. - Author: Lee Greenwood

#20. Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault. - Author: Madeleine Brent

#21. Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events. - Author: Joshua Foer

#22. The truth is, everything that has happened in my life ... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better. - Author: Warren Buffett

#23. When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. - Author: Mo Rocca

#24. By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern, and so on. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#25. In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection. - Author: William Lyon Phelps

#26. It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. - Author: Bill Condon

#27. I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters. - Author: Christopher Koch

#28. You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party? - Author: Amar'e Stoudemire

#29. Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention. - Author: Alice Bailey

#30. The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. - Author: Salman Rushdie

#31. When you use a simple gelatin like collagen, you can get flavor that is 100 percent pure, maybe event 150 percent. - Author: Jose Andres

#32. Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat. - Author: Dale Archer

#33. The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility. - Author: Ken Calvert

#34. It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community. - Author: Sandy Smith

#35. Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is. - Author: Tera Van Beilen

#36. The chances are you've never seen the other side of me. You've seen the event side of me when I'm on stage. But there is another side of me. If you evoke that side, you won't like it. It's a nasty side. You don't want to see that side. You're not missing anything by not seeing it. - Author: Prem Rawat

#37. It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. - Author: Howard Baker

#38. I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google! - Author: Matt Mullenweg

#39. In the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely. - Author: Padgett Powell

#40. This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe. - Author: Michio Kaku

#41. A timeline is a linear representation of cause and effect, changing one event alters all that follow. - Author: J.W. Lord

#42. Chronology of any event worked best in obituaries. It had no place in the world of sentiment, where memories, ideas and assumptions co-existed side by side. - Author: Noorilhuda

#43. The U.S. team has swept all the medals in the skeet shooting event. So despite our bad economy, it's nice to know our country has never been safer from an attack of skeets. - Author: Conan O'Brien

#44. The incarnation (becoming flesh) of God is at the very center of the gospel event by which God restores the true relationship between himself and the human race. - Author: Graeme Goldsworthy

#45. After finishing my drink I feel a pressure in my lower regions, and I realize I have to piss. Since the Dead don't drink, urination is a rare event. I hope I can remember how to do it. - Author: Isaac Marion

#46. If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee. - Author: Tony Hale

#47. I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes. - Author: George Soros

#48. The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#49. At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you. - Author: Charlene Costanzo

#50. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions. - Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#51. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event. - Author: Drew Carey

#52. In the unlikely event that she does escape me, I will inform you all. If you catch her, you are to detain her and return her to me." His eyes glowed like the fires of hell. "She is not to be harmed in any way, or so help you God, you will regret it until your last breath." * - Author: Brooklyn Ann

#53. Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event. - Author: Chris LeDoux

#54. It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight - Author: Carlos E. Asay

#55. Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. - Author: Edward Gibbon

#56. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims. - Author: Judith Butler

#57. Life is meaningless until we learn to use the power of divine love and see the divine in every event and in every beauty. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#58. I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun. - Author: Helen McCrory

#59. The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band. - Author: Steven Van Zandt

#60. In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten. - Author: Muriel Barbery

#61. Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. Minds join together to create new technologies, on its own against threats from the outside, that civilization crumbles. - Author: Becky Chambers

#62. For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground. - Author: Clive Owen

#63. Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick. - Author: Victor J. Banis

#64. If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success
Ethelred The Unready - Author: Robert Asprin

#65. Bodies are just leftovers, not the real event on death. - Author: Kat Richardson

#66. But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. - Author: George Washington

#67. Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. - Author: Thomas Merton

#68. Failure is an event, it is not a person. - Author: Zig Ziglar

#69. Every day is a training day and every event is a training event. - Author: James Pritchert

#70. Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. - Author: Edward Said

#71. I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. - Author: Ai Weiwei

#72. One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments. - Author: Silvia Hartmann

#73. When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus. - Author: Philipp Meyer

#74. If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. - Author: Wendell Willkie

#75. Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event! - Author: Roberto Hogue

#76. Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God. - Author: Joseph Hall

#77. All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. - Author: Leonardo Da Vinci

#78. Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth. - Author: Leonard Orr

#79. Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event. - Author: A.C. Grayling

#80. No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event. - Author: Steven Redhead

#81. Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution. - Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin

#82. The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back. - Author: Lee Westwood

#83. The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth
the very thing the whole story has been about. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#84. Being put in this situation, where it's myself, Kyle O'Reilly and a Jay Lethal, I think it's the best main event you can have right now in Ring of Honor. - Author: Adam Cole

#85. At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant. - Author: Bill Goldberg

#86. There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon. - Author: Lindsay Hartley

#87. When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country. - Author: Denis Hayes

#88. Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. - Author: Debra Messing

#89. A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there. - Author: Dick Gregory

#90. I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens. - Author: Morris Gleitzman

#91. After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda. - Author: Coco Chanel

#92. We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process. - Author: John C. Maxwell

#93. The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it. - Author: Cobi Jones

#94. That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.' - Author: Jay Leno

#95. The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. - Author: Daniel Goleman

#96. At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened. - Author: Ian McEwan

#97. God does not look at our suffering from afar. It is an intimate event to him. He is the author of every detail, speaking the suffering as it occurs. - Author: Ben Palpant

#98. Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish. - Author: Janet Suzman

#99. Forgiveness, I am learning, cannot stand as a single, once-and-for-all event. Every morning brings a fresh coffeepot, and a fresh chance to get back to this messy and necessary work. - Author: Seth Haines

#100. The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate. - Author: Tracy Thompson