Quotes About Events

WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT to read is the product of a deranged mind, and I, of course, am talking about the deranged mind of the supposedly loving god who allowed these totally real events to occur.

Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

Oh, the power of the delete. It felt fabulous. I wished I could go around deleting like crazy. I'd delete suspicious spots on X-rays and malls at Christmas, car troubles and tragic events in history, the world's and my own.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.

Life will be perfect if your expectations and responses to events are humble and perfect.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.

Creativity comes from knowledge. You must have knowledge of your own product or service, your competition, your target audience, your marketing area, the economy, current events, and the trends of the time. With this knowledge, you'll have what it takes to develop a creative marketing program, and you'll produce creative marketing materials.

It had always irked me that gods never said, "Next Tuesday, Rajit will be struck with boils in his mouth and choke to death." What good was prophecy if you had to live through the events foretold before you could begin to understand them?

The ultimate fate of nations is often measured and swayed not by large events, but by tiny ones, small, symbolic gestures that shape men's passions, assuage or incite their fears, and quell or inflame lingering hostilities

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?

The scenes and events were beautiful color spots in her memory.

Il ne savait pas encore que tout événement de notre vie n'a d'importance que la résonance qu'il trouve en nous, que le degré qu'il nous fait franchir vers l'ascétisme

présent, la version des événements sans jamais pouvoir affirmer que celle-ci est définitive.

Les événements disposent de nous pour presque tout. Les rares fois où il nous revient de décider librement, nous n'avons pas le droit de vouloir autre chose que le bonheur.

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than the rest.

Siempre son cosas minúsculas las que determinan las catástrofes.

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.