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Quotes About Events

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
~ Alfred Adler
I think that this is minor. Things will happen in your life—things will probably happen in your life—that will make this seem minor. Other things you'll be able to feel guilty about.
~ Alice Munro
The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.
~ Alice Sebold
7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales
~ Alison Weir
None of the other Beatles attended. Just as Paul and Linda were exchanging vows, George was being arrested for drug possession at his own home. He attended the reception. John and Yoko were in the studio completing their second joint LP, Unfinished Music No. 2—Life with the Lions. And Ringo Starr was filming The Magic Christian, with Peter Sellers. No other Beatles were present eight days later, when John married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
~ Allan Kozinn
His experiences at the scene of so many violent events had not hardened him: he was still vulnerable to the emotions of his adolescence.
~ ALLENDE, Isabel
To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.
~ Amanda Craig
History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them.
~ Amelia B. Edwards
Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life might turn on the next few moments if he could find the right words, and make himself say them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I merely reminded her to not only set an intention every day with regard to what that summer would look like—what people she would see, what events would transpire, what places she would visit—but also to feel what it would be like to experience these things.
~ Joe Dispenza
For the years 1749 to 1926, Alexander Chizhevsky compared the annual number of important political and social events with increased solar activity. On the graph, the blue line illustrates sun flares and the red line relates to human excitability. Notice that every time there is high solar activity, there is a correlation with heightened human events.
~ Joe Dispenza
There have been six extinction events in the life of this planet. I bet every one of them was the spore.
~ Joe Hill
Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers. Not to mention the single most feared creature on the planet: the self-published poet
~ Joe Queenan
The possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear age is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going on behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on that score. Peter Goss
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Even after you learn where to look for new ideas, the notion that you can cover even one-tenth of these special corporate events is a pipe dream.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
~ John William Draper
History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
~ Ali MacGraw
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
~ Sheryl Crow
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.
~ David Hume
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
~ Dinesh D'Souza