Quotes About Events

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

I always have something going on.

Il Destino, che è un regista alla ricerca di facili effetti, piuttosto di sacrificare una battuta sicura, preferisce sacrificare la logica degli eventi. Per questo il nostro pianeta è squinternato ma divertente.

Except for a monster, no man who actually participated in such events (rather than "merely" organized from far away) can concede guilt and yet, as the young prison officer in Düsseldorf put it, "consent to remain alive".

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements.

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements. Si tu pars de l'idée que ce ne sont pas les choses, mais le jugement que nous portons sur elles qui nous fait souffrir, alors tu peux aspirer à prendre le contrôle de ta vie. Sinon tu es condamné à tirer sur

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

Only conflict is news, and

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

We are responsible for most of what happens to us.

History is not a series of causeless consequences. Event follows event in time, as minute follows minute in the day.

Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.

History is gossip well told.

...all histories, which are a kind of distilled newspapers...

Perhaps we are yet too near the great events of which this act formed so conspicuous a part, to understand its deep significance and to foresee its far-off consequences. The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves, especially when they read it by the fierce and dusky light of war, or amid the deeper shadows of those sorrows which war brings to both.

No cabía predecir lo que había de suceder, porque, con todo lo dotado de vida, las cosas ocurrían siempre, por una razón u otra, de modo distinto.

The rise of the Oligarchy will always remain a cause of secret wonder to the historian and the philosopher. Other great historical events have their place in social evolution. They were inevitable. Their coming could have been predicted with the same certitude that astronomers to-day predict the outcome of the movements of stars. Without

I must give the events in their proper sequence.

Every instant a million events occur one iota past the edge of your awareness.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

All this I knew, and yet it was a different thing, to learn it from Delaunay: not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. When I understood this, Delaunay said, I might begin to understand.

there is no saying how events in one place may affect what happens elsewhere, for the tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

We are all impacted by the events that will become history.