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"Revolution is not a onetime event." »Audre Lorde
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"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." »Dan Quayle
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"All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked." »Ecclesiastes 92 Bible
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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history." »Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
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"Separation is not an event but it is a process involves enormous changes and loss" »The Omani Shed
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"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian." »Lee Simonson
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"The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it." »David Searles
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"If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now." »James Hillman
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"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." »Henri Cartier-Bresson
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"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent." »Edmund Burke
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"The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years." »Johnson
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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." »Bob Newhart
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"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool." »Albert Camus
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"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." »Florida Scott-Maxwell
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"What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life." »Srully D. Blotnick
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"As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event." »Andrew Schneider
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"History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not." »Theodore Harold White
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"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." »Oscar Wilde
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"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform." »George Steiner
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau
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"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it." »Maurice Masterlinck
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"The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children." »Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
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"Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have." »Andrew Soloman, ”The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
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"History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy." »George Macaulay Trevelyan
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"Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live." »Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people
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"Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it." »Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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"It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind." »Barbara Hall
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