Quotes About Events

He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.

Once severed from the future, the past becomes an insignificant parade of trivial events, no longer organic, no longer potent or painful.

The study of history is part of man's awareness of himself and the nature and place of his society in the world at large; it is valuable not so much because he can find in the past rough parallels to the present, but because he can find societies and events and ides that are sharply

The year began with the hanging of one man and ended with the drowning of another.

Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never know from what quarter the sudden blow of chance will come. Catastrophe and good fortune come upon us and then depart, like unexpected visitors. They have their own laws, their own orbits, their own gravitational force, all independent of man.

He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all.

great events have incalculable results.

Los grandes acontecimientos tienen consecuencias incalculables

This demonstrates the novel truth—that great events have incalculable consequences.

They were eyes no longer, but had become those fathomless mirrors which in men who have known the depths of suffering may replace the conscious gaze, so that they no longer see reality but reflect the memory of past events.

By the time a critical situation is reached, people are so embedded in the kinds of thinking, values, and behavior that led to the critical point that nothing less than a heroic effort on the part of the population as a whole can sway the course of events.

Isi marturisi ca viata lui fara consistenta, care numara 52 de ani, care alunecase pe langa evenimente, e tot atat de neinsemnata in lupta indarjita a marilor destine, a marilor cariere, pe cat de imperceptibil e fumul unei tigari in in vagonul unui tren aflat in flacari.

had never realized the headlines of this world were the product of overheated imaginations, staged events and tons of nothing! It took my breath away.

History would not be what it is, the record of man's crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

Few will ever witness an act destined to become legend. How does it happen, that the events of a day, or a night — or a life — are translated into story? There is a gap in between, where awe has carved a space that words have yet to fill.

Wrapped in tissue, safe from harm, and all they knew of life was gala events and the inside of the box. How dull. How dumb. By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor. I earned this dirt. Respect. The dirt. "That's right," she said.

Maia pulled on a braid. "I ran into Eric of all people. He told me what happened and that you'd backed out of Millenium Lint's gigs for the past two weeks because of it." "Actually, they changed their name," Jordan said. "They're Midnight Burrito now.

Most big life events are like that. You think they'll be emotionally one-sided, but when you actually get into them, it's always more complex.

Most big life events are like that. You think they'll be emotionally one-sided, but when you actually get into them, it's always more complex." - Nathan

School-age children become storytellers. Not only do they enjoy hearing stories, they can look back over the events of their lives and weave those events together into a story or narrative and, in the process, discover meaning in those concrete experiences.

Hey there," the steely abomination said with infinite, Buddha-like compassion, "it looks like you're trying to come to grips with the existence of events and entities far beyond your experience and, as a result, are currently undergoing a small, entirely understandable, psychological break. Would you like help?

There were three major triggers that led to the end of WWI: (1) The Russian Revolution (2) Americans entering the war in 1917 (3) The failure of Germany's Spring Offensive

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