Quotes About Events

Not a coincidence, but events coming full circle. The infinite possibilities of energy and spirit.

I let myself go to the to and fro of events and days, sometimes bewildered, sometimes apathetic, between ambition and discouragement.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. Are you ready to go?

caterers, no, people

To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality. We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly.

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It would be easier to accept that version of events, however, if we hadn't just looked at hockey and soccer players. Theirs was supposed to be a pure meritocracy as well. Only it wasn't. It was a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through

Don't let your circumstances and the events in your life rob you of the joy of celebration.

A lot depends on the small things

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Would not write you a diary of life on board because it is only this: Oatmeal for breakfast. Swimming in the pool. Invitation for cocktail. Walk with So and So. Lunch with Mr. & Mrs. Nobody. Movies with Mr. Connecticut Yankee. Tea with Count Z. Cocktails with rich Jewish merchant. Dinner with X. Dancing until midnight.

The resistance is the material, the events, the enigmas, the obscure motivations of the characters. Avoid grappling with these and you have a surface affair—a linear pattern, a solo melody in one key and monotonous and eventually exasperating. I ask myself, isn't it this precisely which gives a diary its essential character?

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The past believed in dates. And everyone's life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.

News you can't read calmly, don't read at all!

And yet, thinkers far more sober than Baudrillard view the events of September 11 as a consequence of American foreign policy.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Sir," said Imlac, "my history will not be long: the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events.

I could produce innumerable instances from my own memory and observation, of events imputed to the profound skill and address of a minister, which, in reality, were either mere effects of negligence, weakness, humour, passion, or pride, or, at best, but the natural course of things left to themselves.Swift'sThoughts on the present Posture of Affairs.5. Manner