Quotes About Momentous Events

#1. The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams.

Gene Wolfe

#2. We live in a world that is lost and in a moment of intense darkness. Have we fallen asleep when our Lord and Savior has asked us to stay awake with Him? Are we sleeping in spiritually and letting momentous events and opportunities pass us by? My dear friends, let's wake up and draw close to Jesus.

Darlene Zschech

#3. Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.

Jennifer Worth

#4. Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Roberto Rossellini

#5. Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know, and as an architect of momentous events, Lawrence would be uniquely haunted by what he saw and did during the Great Loot.

Scott Anderson

#6. Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

Mark Haddon

#7. A look that was a little bit devious, and all sorts of charming. Cress

Marissa Meyer

#8. After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.

Michael Bond

#9. On the seemingly one-sided relationship between Michael Jordan and his shoe sponsors Nike- The company should change its name to Mike.

Alvin Robertson

#10. The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

Jack Horner

#11. From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

Jane Fonda

#13. When God shook Israel awake from her violent slumber, He said, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49, emphasis added).

Jen Hatmaker

#14. When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.

Jocelynn Drake

#15. Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

Dervla Murphy

#16. All my friends are so small town.

John Mellencamp

#17. Don't blink, young people. Enjoy every minute.

Karen Kingsbury

#18. The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

James Buchanan

#19. A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Leah Ward Sears