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1 " Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.

It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger.

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. "

― Jackie Collins , Lucky (Lucky Santangelo, #2)

2 " Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. "

3 " The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise. "

― Stephen Hawking

4 " 6.4311
Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.
Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.
Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.


6.4311
Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

5 " [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village. "

― Daniel Quinn , Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

6 " Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality. "

7 " How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no longer able to seize it? Most people have a limit in this respect: what lies too near them in time they cannot remember, nor what lies too remote. I know no limit. What was experienced yesterday, I push back a thousand years in time, and remember as if it were yesterday." ―Johannes de Silentio, from_Either/Or_ "

8 " Things will happen when they should. When an event is forced, its outcome would be less than optimal. "

― Charbel Tadros

9 " Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive. "

― David Niven

10 " For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives. "

― , Tragedy and Loss and the Search for Jesus

11 " Myths are what remain once the history of an event has been forgotten or lost to time. Myths are like the memory of one’s first crush; the pain and longing one felt at that time is forgotten, but the warmth and sweetness of romance lives on, probably even magnified, larger in the imagination than it was in reality. "

― Shatrujeet Nath

12 " If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. "

― Gloria Steinem , My Life on the Road

13 " When people have a controversial opinion about an event or a prominent figure, it can significantly increase conflicts of interests that can result people to be socially excluded who don't share the same perspective as them. The way people can end conflicts of interests is to negotiate their conflicting views and unite in order to establish tranquility. "

14 " Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance. "

― William A. Dembski , The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities

15 " The scientific method entails two assumptions that are so basic that, even if you spell them out, they are still difficult to keep in mind. First: that the observer stays the same while the world changes. Second: that cause precedes effect.

But the very nature of the experiment we are conducting means that the second of these assumptions is thrown into doubt. We are deliberately attempting to engineer an event in which effect chronologically precedes cause.

If one of these assumptions is under threat, why not the other? "

― Dexter Palmer , Version Control

16 " That Marxism is not a science is entirely clear to intelligent people in the Soviet Union. One would even feel awkward to refer to it as a science. Leaving aside the exact sciences, such as physics, mathematics, and the natural sciences, even the social sciences can predict an event—when, in what way and how an event might occur. Communism has never made any such forecasts. It has never said where, when, and precisely what is going to happen. Nothing but declamations. Rhetoric to the effect that the world proletariat will overthrow the world bourgeoisie and the most happy and radiant society will then arise. "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Warning to the West

17 " A good book is an event in my life. "

― Stendhal , The Red and the Black

18 " Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. "

― Susan Sontag , Regarding the Pain of Others

19 " one morning in my early twenties when feeling quite suicidal
I got into my locked car and someone had done a reversal
the Hawaiian necklace that hung on the rearview mirror
had been turned around backwards in an event so queer
in that moment I knew I was not alone in my struggles
and that all would be okay if I simply forgot my troubles
let it be known that you’ve got watchful guardian angels
I’ll tell you of yet another way that they make me so grateful
their presence and assistance is often noticed as such:
a shot of high frequency energy is felt as they touch
receiving a ringing in an ear while my mind goes meditative
spiritually put back on track with a reminder of my objective
because of the prayers I practice this is how I’m aided
your experiences may vary out of not caring to be persuaded
how often do you call out for help from on high?
it’s their pleasure to assist if you’d just ask them to come by
I can tell you straight away, they know your thoughts
and exactly how you’re feeling when you’re distraught
seeing you scanning this sentence as they’re in your presence
do you feel their love or have you taken a rigid stance? "

― Jarett Sabirsh , Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem

20 " I had been sent away to help guarantee and perpetuate this indifference. No one, here, knew what was happening anywhere else. Perhaps no one ever knows that, anywhere: wherever " here" may be, it must always happen " here" before it can be perceived to have happened. And then, it is not really perceived, it is simply endured. Out of this endurance come, for the most part, alas, monuments, legends, and lies. People cling to these in order to deny that what happened is always happening; that what happened is not an event skewered and immobilized by time, but a continuing and timeless mirror of ourselves. "