John Green Quotes

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

A turning point in modern history.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.

'Breathless' was an important milestone in my life.

When history calls, history calls.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

This is a turning point in human history.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

My life and career can be divided into pre- and post- 'Paruthiveeran.'

A-Frame was a real, pivotal moment because that's where I really got to channel a lot of emotions.

We always have that one special moment that could be anything that changes our lives forever.

I had no idea about how my life would change after 'Fukrey.'

I was thirty when I did 'Jack.'

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.