Quotes of: Big-event Keyword

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Beautiful Lies

Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

Burn

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Ang Lee

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave again...

Eugene Jarecki

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

Gloria Allred

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration s...

Ben Shapiro

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

Joyce Carol Oates

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

The 33 Strategies of War

Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.

Intimate Journals

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

Inheritance

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Planning of the next day’s activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.

Shaping the dream

Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back. Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?" "And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.

The Mane Event

Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events that ultimately dries the soul and leaves the heart empty.

The Master Of Fate

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child’s life.

A Mom After God's Own Heart

My retelling of events to Zoe is what grounds them, shapes them, makes them real. If I can't tell Zoe about kissing Danny Spinelli, it didn't happen.

The Museum of Intangible Things

Dear friend, never do you go to war, So neither rush into strong wind nor Entirely put a trust in a distant event. (Two-pointed thorn)

Living In Differences

Time is a structured perception of human brain on natural events. Eternity ain't based on the human perception, but on perpetual cycle.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut