Quotes About Events

Economic, financial, and political predictors… are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients—and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commotions cannot excuse any failure of inward resolve, even if some seem to unravel so easily.

While weak hope leaves us at the mercy of our moods and events, 'brightness of hope' produces illuminated individuals. Their luminosity is seen, and things are also seen by it!

History is a sequence of random events and unpredictable choices, which is why the future is so difficult to foresee.

We attend to fragments of events from all over the world because we have multiple media whose forms are well suited to fragmented conversation.

Since a year encompasses a great deal of events, so do our services in the month of Elul. As we prepare for the redemption offered us by Yom Kippur, we focus on what I like to call the three T's: Torah, tefilah, and tzedakah.

Anarchism is an ideology which is too realistic not to comprehend the modern world and real events. The part taken by its practitioners in these events is based on a clear understanding of the goal to be attained and the means to be used to reach it...

The drama of life is a psychological one in which all the conditions, circumstances, and events of your life are brought to pass by your assumptions. Since your life is determined by your assumptions, you are forced to recognize the fact that you are either a slave to your assumptions or their master. To become the master of your assumptions is the key to undreamed of freedom and happiness.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

suppression of stories about 2,500 assaults on New Year's Eve 2015.

Ah," said Dr. Hart, "this is a pet theory of my own. The actual 'he' is known to nobody." "Does the actual 'he' even exist?" Jonathan returned. "May it not be argued that 'he' has no intrinsic reality since different selfs arise out of a conglomeration of selfs to meet different events?

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open."

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

If all these considerations are correct, then the appearance of eyes really could have ignited the Cambrian explosion. And if that's the case, then the evolution of the eye must certainly number among the most dramatic and important events in the whole history of life on earth.

is entirely possible that the abduction phenomenon is nothing at all to do with us, and that we have simply been caught up in events which are beyond human understanding.

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence "Freedom," but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

When the dust raised by the great events of modern history settles, the mediocrity of the protagonists leaves the historian dumbfounded.

Remember, the purpose of yoga is clarification of our individual field of consciousness in order to perceive external events clearly and connect to our inner light of awareness, our inner Self.

in accordance with the primitive arrangement of things, the most trifling causes produce the greatest events, and the grandest undertakings end in the most insignificant results.

Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it's over.

But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.

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

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide.

Analyse politique? c'est au dela de l'observation directe, l'interpretation factuelle et evenementielle c'est savoir discerner ce qui fait sensation et essayer de comprendre ce qui sous-tend l'apparente realite qui frappe nos sens de plein fouet