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Events Quotes

Posted by Nabil Medawar in Quotations, tags: event, Events

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.~ Thornton Wilder
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle. ~ George Bernard Shaw
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. ~ Harry S. Truman
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. ~ 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
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
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
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 event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ~ Adrienne Rich
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ~ Richard Bach
Failure is an event, never a person. ~ William D. Brown
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.~ Robert F. Kennedy
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.~ Denis Diderot
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 am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ~ Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. ~ Abraham Lincoln
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. ~ Andre Maurois
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.~ William James
If you have enough fantasies, you’re ready, in the event that something happens. ~ Sheila Ballantyne
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.~ Francis Bacon
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 essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. ~ Barbara Sher
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ~ Anthony Robbins
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us– and those around us — more effectively. Look for the learning. ~ Eric Allenbaugh
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. ~ Karl Kraus
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 events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation. ~ Eudora Welty
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
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