Unprecedented Events Quotes

This is the craziest presidency in U.S. history.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

The 2016 Presidential Campaign had the most bizarre and unusual occurrences in all my years of covering politics, I have never seen so much that was unique and unheard of. My favorite one was when the Republican Speaker of the House referred to the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, the "Devil Incarnate". And then the Society of Satan Worshippers put out a Press Release denying it.

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

After the most unusual election in modern U.S. history came the most unusual transition, to be followed, surely, by the most unusual presidency.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

'Doom Patrol' is doing the most - and the wackiest - things, but when you've been alive in this time, you know it's actually not so wacky. Awful, strange, and inexplicable things do happen.

My life has been so extraordinary.

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

We have lived through some unforgettable times together, some good, some bad, achieving results that will be hard to equal.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.