Quotes About Events

You see, its never the environment; its never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events how we interpret them that shapes who we are today and who well become tomorrow.

See our thoughts as mental events that come and go in the mind like clouds across the sky

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

Shit doesn't just happen in a void, there're ripples and consequences and even with all that there's still a whole fucking world going on, whether you're doing something or not.

Born, as her name indicated, on the first day of the Persian spring, she had the superstitious nature of people whose birthdays fall on the cusps of changing seasons. She was forever looking over her shoulder for fear that she had stepped on cracks or wandered under a ladder. Bahar's inherent nervousness had escalated to a deeper malaise in recent years, the result of unspeakable events that had left indelible scars.

The process approach employs narrative explanation that notes the contributions actions and events make to a particular outcome and then configures these parts into a whole episode ( Polkinghorne, 1988). It

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

I hope to meet many of you at my signings, and I look forward to saying hello to you all. Take care and God bless, Martina x

life was just a series of events, that was all, and you had no real power over it whatsoever. You just thought you did.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

As it is the invisible forces that are the most powerful in nature, so it is the obscure and least observed events that have accomplished the most tremendous revolutions in human affairs.

The simple mathematical fact working here is that variation is always amplified as it moves down a chain of connected events. A little variation in step one introduces a huge variation five steps later.

It looks like it's wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

I like books that fit in pockets, which can lead to love, give, turn a corner, give, buy back preferred to read the passages. For me it is an important event to exchange a book you want, and give your shoes.

Indeed, war and money seemed to be so popular on the news, it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show.

You see, when you look at events in history there is a two-way perspective. Forwards and back. But at the time everything is one way.

And the trouble is that now we have 24-hour news coverage, where events are continuously breaking but rarely absorbed. We are in a world of news, which by its very nature skims the new moment, garnished with headlines and sound bites, rarely giving us a calmer, more

They have no way of coming to terms with what are, biologically, the two most important events that happen to them – procreation and death. They pretend to know that money can't buy them happiness, yet they would choose money every time.

Myths arise from actual events, remarkable events that get talked about precisely because they are remarkable and which then get embellished in the retelling.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Whenever we have a mental state where there is anger, frustration, and fighting against the flow or a lack of confidence in the natural progression of events, the liver will usually be involved.

Each one of us has his shining hour in the events of his century. On one occasion it may be Monseigneur of Kent, on another Monseigneur of Lancaster, some other on a previous occasion and yet another on a later, whom the event illumines because of the decisive part he plays in it. Thus is made the history of the world.