Quotes of: Big-event Keyword

However big the whale may be, the tiny harpoon can rob him of life.

Malawian

The patient who names a doctor his heir makes a big mistake.

Spanish

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

Drain You

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

Flight Behavior

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

Geek Girl

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

On Revolution

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

Shooting an Elephant

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

Salome

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.

The Mane Event

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

Q-In-Law

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Trauma and Recovery

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was ...

Ron Ben-Israel

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

Jason Alexander

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Norman Mailer

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

Roy Bennett

This day is the most recent set of events to define you. Every day changes your life. Every last one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

Russel Honore

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy