Jesse Ball Author “One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.” Might Events Pairs ♥ 3
JO John Oliver Comedian “Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.” Events Chill Palin ♥ 3
Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet “I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.” Way Knowing Events ♥ 3
Joseph Heller Novelist “Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?” Long Life Events ♥ 3
Joseph Hume Politician “If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.” Law Events Twelve ♥ 3
JN Judd Nelson Actor “I did a Moonlighting episode because I was friends with Whoopi [Goldberg, who guest-starred in the same episode], and she asked me to do it and I did it. But yeah, that was my first regular on a series, and it's because I'd met Brooke Shields a number of years earlier at a charity event.” Years Numbers Events ♥ 3
Joan Didion Author, Essayist “Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.” Matter Events Aging ♥ 3
JK Jason Kennedy Journalist “The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.” Winning Events Insightful ♥ 3
Martin Jacques Political Commentator and Author “The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.” World Political Events ♥ 3
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Author “Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.” Events Disappointment Deities ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.” Events History Command ♥ 3
Milan Kundera Writer “When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.” Kissing Events Avid ♥ 3
