Quotes About Events

History is all about 'what ifs

That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) – one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events. It was quite wearyingly relentless but the only way that one could go was forward. She

She seemed to have no inkling that life wasn't as orderly as her pencil case and that everything is chance and at any moment any number of remarkable things can happen that are totally beyond our control, events that rip up our maps and re-polarize our compasses - the madwoman walking towards us, the train falling off the bridge, the boy on the bicycle.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.