Top 25 Quotes About Terrible Events
#1. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
Gever Tulley
#2. I'd relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn't a guarantee for happiness.
Jeaniene Frost
#3. After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.
Tony Blair
#4. Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#5. We'll be the walls that shield these terrible events from them. We can endure the pain for however long they need to heal.
Krista Ritchie
#6. The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.
Noam Chomsky
#7. All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
Cleopatra
#8. Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.
Imran Khan
#9. Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#10. Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.
Larry David
#11. So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.
Tacitus
#13. There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
John Ruskin
#14. Lesson learned: Never take Melatonin and then read Terry Pratchett. It causes really weird dreams
Karren Bennett
#15. I know how hard it will be to follow the best manager ever, but the opportunity to manage Manchester United isn't something that comes around very often and I'm really looking forward to taking up the post next season.
David Moyes
#16. If I can't see around my personal story, I'll have no way to see sit in context: This is one event in a life of events. It is whatever it is, but it is temporal. The pain is terrible, but it won't last. I can manage it. or this joy is incredible, but it won't last. Celebrate it now! [pp. 104-105]
Sylvia Boorstein
#17. All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story ... They are terrible people.
Nina Bawden
#18. We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
Byron Katie
#19. The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.
Edward Said
#20. It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous
even death is terrible only if we fear it.
Epictetus
#21. Sometimes, you ask questions not to get the answer but to get the better understanding of question itself.
Foaad Ahmad
#22. Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.
Christina Bartolomeo
#23. Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.
William J. Clinton
#24. 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.
Tera Van Beilen
#25. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
Edward Zwick
