Quotes About Event

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

It follows that in the reporting of strikes, the easiest way is to let the news be uncovered by the overt act, and to describe the event as the story of interference with the reader's life. This is where his attention is first aroused and his interest most easily enlisted.

liturgical memorial brings the past and present together, making the long-ago event mystically present for the current generation.

It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface.

Indeed, a funeral can give a subsequent event new importance for the entire family because the newly celebrated individual becomes the replacement for the family member who has just died.

Birth and death are an event; however, between that, life is a process.

The beauty of the story is that it happened. It was the last thing that happened in New York. Everything else happened while I was stopping it from happening.

Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.

I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

A miracle is an event described by those to whom it was told by people who did not see it.

That way the story is put on the same footing as life, because a story is a life that didn't happen, and a life is a story that didn't get told.

Music structures time. By imposing order, music ensures that the emotions aroused by a particular event peak at the same moment.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

somatic markers depend on learning within a system that can connect certain categories of entity or event with the enactment of a body state, pleasant or unpleasant. Incidentally

The crowd goes to see the inauguration but what they largely find lengthy oration, flowery felicitation and flattering admiration of one another amongst the key dignitaries in their speech from the stage.

The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.

the failure of communication is more often existential than merely lingual. Is there anything more miraculous than the unsimple event of words becoming

The term 'violence' refers to an event or an action that 'violates' some aspect of human life. Violence, then, is always connected with suffering. But not all suffering involves the quality of violence. The pain of guilt that a person feels may be so deep and may spread through his awareness so gradually that not fore of 'violence' is detectable.