David Eddings Quotes

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

Defining moments are the moments that either define you, or you define the moment.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

One day can bend your life.

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.

Most of the things that have happened in my life have been pretty arbitrary. I walk into a room, and someone hits me with a two-by-four, and that changes my life. I'm not sure what I've learned from anything.

I'm always interested in the moment when lives somehow accidentally cross. I think sometimes those accidental meetings can be small miracles; they can really change one's perspective on that moment and on life.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.

Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same.

I think the most significant change in my life is the decision to do a series. An hourlong dramatic television series on a broadcast network swallows you and chews you up and refuses to spit you out. You're making a decision that's going to be a profound and significant impact on the practical aspects of your life.

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

My life is so different than I thought it would be.