Quotes About Events

Marriage is a serious undertaking. You must submit to family congratulations on certain events, and have a nursery at the top of the house. One doesn't know what a nursery may lead to.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

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

But I don't consider history to be a field. It's just all the stuff that's happened so far. You have to call it a field so people who study what happened in the past can get a job teaching blank. But it doesn't seem to me that it's a subject.

Daily Law: Remember that greater control over events will come from realistic assessments of the situation, precisely what is made most difficult by a brain submerged in trivia. The Laws of Human Nature, 6: Elevate Your Perspective—The Law of Shortsightedness

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. WALTER BENJAMIN, 1892-1940

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only

There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

I did not have long to enjoy my freedom in tranquillity. My modest plans, like everyone else's, were about to be mocked by the immensity of events. As Plautus has it: Whatever the mind may hope for The future is in the hands of the gods.

There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Trying to understand major economic events by looking only at data on changes in economic aggregates, such as gross domestic product, wage rates, interest rates, and tax rates, runs the risk of missing the underlying motivations for change. Doing so is like trying to understand a religious awakening by looking at the cost of printing religious tracts.

traditional economic approaches fail to examine the role of public beliefs in major economic events—that is, narrative. By incorporating an understanding of popular narratives into their explanations of economic events, economists will become more sensitive to such influences when they forecast the future. In doing so, they will give policymakers better tools for anticipating and dealing with these developments.

It was the calm of the observer, the uninvolved observer, separated from the events, knowing of them but not essentially involved.

Events shaped men, perhaps, but they did not remove alternatives of choice.

Never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricane he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that, once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

It's not what happens in one's life that matters, but it's the meaning one puts on what happens that matters.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

Generalmente, ésa es la manera en que se escribe la historia, a través de las versiones de los testigos presenciales, que no siempre corresponden a la realidad.

I've seen more than half a century of events. I've seen so much stuff that I had to purge 90 percent of my childhood memories from my brain in order to make room for passwords and PINs.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us (boldly imagining that we are discrete ego's modeling our own personal futures)--time carries us forward by the momentum of those feelings inside us of which we ourselves are least conscious.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

History is the science of what never happens twice.