Quotes About Events

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

I'd never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

a distinction between events to motivate the claim that cause and effect might come apart.

They also adopted a notion we rejected, called VaR or "value at risk," where they estimated the damage to their portfolio for, say, the worst events among the most likely 95 percent of future outcomes, neglecting the extreme 5 percent "tails," then acted to reduce any unacceptably large risks. The defect of VaR alone is that it doesn't fully account for the worst 5 percent of expected cases. But these extreme events are where ruin is to be found.

At all events, I knew that all bull manipulation was foredoomed to failure in that bear market.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

List the major events you remember from childhood and adolescence, the memories that shaped who you are.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences.