Event

Famous quotes containing the word event:

“No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.”
—Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)

“The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I feared these present years,
The middle twenties,
When deftness disappears,
And each event is
Freighted with a source-encrusting doubt,
And turned to drought.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)