Quotes About Events

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

I've been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer.

I want people to know we throw real parties. We don't need more boring libertarian or conservative conferences.

I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.

I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines.

Im not big on make up. I only have a make up artist for events.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

Ä°lginç ÅŸeyler oluyordu, ama daima baÅŸkalar?na oluyordu.

A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that unanticipated developments often lead to unintended consequences.

Something happens and then something else happens and then all sorts of other things happen, expected and unexpected, unusual and ordinary.

Your memory rope may not contain a precise, photographic accounting of past events, because those moments become lost within seconds of anything that occurs. But still, your honest (if not accurate) memories will be attached to those knots, and those honest memories—along with reflection, examination, reconsideration—are precisely what the memoirist has to offer.

The writer of nonfiction might be starting with events that really happened, but recreating them is an imaginative feat. Ordering them is an imaginative feat. Making sense of them is an imaginative feat." —Robin Hemley

This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them.

The mountains here contained a sense of time, geologic time. They lay in embryo, a process unfolding, or a shriveled dying perhaps. They had the look of naked events.

Are secrets a tunnel to a dreamworld where you control events?

We can see what is in front of us, but not what is behind, just as we can remember what happened in the past, but we can't remember the future. Not only that, but we can remember recent events much more clearly than long past events, captured neatly by the visual metaphor in which the past lines up before us, the most recent events being closest so that they clearly perceived (remembered), with long/past events far in the distance, remembered and perceived with difficulty.

First, most accidents do not have a single cause: there are usually multiple things that went wrong, multiple events that, had any one of them not occurred, would have prevented the accident.

Cadence is the use of a regular, predictable rhythm within a process. This rhythm transforms unpredictable events into predictable events. It plays an important role in preventing variability from accumulating in a sequential process.

Cadence causes events to happen at regular time intervals. Synchronization causes multiple events to happen at the same time.

Story is similar to music. A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.