Quotes About Events

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

There is properly no history, only biography.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck. Variations.

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.

What we see happening as we move further into the twenty-first century is a sovereign God moving through global events to open doors once closed to the gospel.

But the lie's most pernicious effect when it comes to our history is to malform events to fit the story whenever America's innocence is threatened by reality.

Certainty is the belief and adherence to a point of view, often accompanied by vehement argument. Clarity is being able to see and learn more of what is really going on, the full spectrum of dimensions that emerge as critically important as events unfold.1 We add that seeing with more clarity and abandoning certainty are benefits of a Humble Inquiry attitude.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

To put it another way, there are lots of things happening to us whether we believe in them or not.