Events Quotes
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance. ~ Henry S. Haskins
- An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. ~ Edmund Burke
- Birth is the scariest event of most peoples’ lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth. ~ Leonard Orr
- By time and council do the best we can. The event is never in the power of man. ~ Author Unknown
- Consult duty, not events. ~ Walter Savage Landor
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event. ~ Gaston Bachelard
- Events are influenced by our very great desires. ~ William James
- Events follow one another like the days of the week. ~ Tanzanian Proverb
- Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. ~ Titus Livy
- Events tend to recur in cycles…~ W. Clement Stone
- Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. ~ Euripides
- Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events. ~ Adrienne Rich
- Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. ~ Thomas Merton
- Failure is an event, never a person. ~ William D. Brown
- Great events may stem from words of no importance. ~ Congolese Proverb
- Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~ Author Unknown
- Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ~Alice Meynell
- Headlines twice the size of the events. ~ John Galsworthy
- History is simply the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event. ~ John Turturro
- If you have enough fantasies, you’re ready, in the event that something happens. ~ Sheila Ballantyne
- In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. ~ Andre Breton
- In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ~ Julius Caesar
- It is easy to be wise after the event. ~ Traditional Proverb
- It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. ~ Anya Seton
- It’s a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. ~ Karen Armstrong
- Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~ Bob Newhart
- Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. ~ Jalal-Uddin Rumi
- Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. ~ Author Unknown
- Life happens at the level of events, not words. ~ Alfred Adler
- Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ~ Charlotte Bronte
- Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents. ~ Edward Hoagland
- Literature is analysis after the event. ~ Doris Lessing
- Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. ~ Menander of Athens
- May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then come Life or Death – it is no great matter. ~ Nathaniel Smith
- Of the events of life we may have some control. But over the law of its progress none. ~ John W. Draper
- Old friends are the great blessing of one’s later years…. They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking. ~ Horace Walpole
- Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. ~ Salman Rushdie
- Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. ~ Karl Kraus
- Tis seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. ~ Anya Seton
- That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ~ Anatole France
- The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
- The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. ~ Daniel Goleman
- The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ~ Norman Mailer
- The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. ~ Edwin Way Teale
- The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ~ Horace Walpole
- There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. ~ Geraldine Jewsbury
- Time is a river of passing events — a rushing torrent. ~ Greek Proverb
- We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ~ Dan Quayle
- When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves. ~ Henry Ford
- Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. ~ Brian Tracy
- You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event — it is a habit. ~ Aristotle
- You can’t recover memories of a missing event. That’s a fallacy. ~ Betty Hill
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