Quotes About Events

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

Henchard, like all his kind, was superstitious, and he could not help thinking that the concatenation of events this evening had produced was the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.

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Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Until all titles are taken away Events are finally obscure forever You wake and wonder Whose case history you composed As your confessions are filed In the dialect Of bureaux and electrons

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic.

here in the Rue Rossini, there comes to Slothrop the best feeling dusk in a foreign city can bring: just where the sky's light balances the electric lamplight in the street, just before the first star, some promise of events without cause, surprises, a direction at right angles to every direction his life has been able to find up till now.

But elephants have souls. Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means. Events between soul and soul are not God's direct province: they are under the influence either of Fortune, or of virtue.

Wars have a way of overriding the days just before them. In the looking back, there is such noise and gravity. But we are conditioned to forget. So thet the war may have importance, yes, but stil... isn't the hidden machinery easier to see in the days leading up to the event. There are arrangements, things to be expedited... and often the edges are apt to lift, briefly, and we see things we were not meant to...

Will Postwar be nothing but "events," newly created one moment to the next? No links? Is it the end of history?

Will Postwar be nothing but events, newly created one moment to the next? No links? Is it the end of history?

Our history is an aggregate of last moments.

People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.

Bulstrode Whitelocke, chronicler of events during the Commonwealth

Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has "problems about how to believe.

This was in the year 1937. There was no escaping the fast-moving trend of events. There was not even an opportunity to protest against them. You could only watch and be swept along. I found the increased taxes and the incessant demands for "donations" by the party a heavy drain on my slender purse.

At the mention of 9/11, everybody went silent. The events of that day had changed Americans, none more than firefighters.

It's (news) like balls in a Bingo hopper. The same events keep coming up over and over. Earthquake. Coup d'etat. Trade war. Hostage taking. My compulsion is to know whick balls are up on any given day.

What, you think that just because we're demons, we don't like to stay current with world events? You think we don't like to be entertained? We're demons, not Nazis!

our entire lives aren't planned out for us—just some things. Specific events along the way, crossroads we're meant to come to. Tests, maybe, to measure our progress. But we always have choices, and those choices can send us along an unplanned path.

As in all things: Time will clarify the events that are presently unclear.

These 'offer-block-accept' games have a use quite apart from actor training. People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull by chance. In reality everyone chooses more or less what kind of events will happen to them by their conscious patterns of blocking and yielding.