Quotes About Events

History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers. History is the Totenbuch, The Book of the Dead, kept by the administrators of the camps. Memory is the Memorbucher, the names of those to be mourned, read aloud in the synagogue.

History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers.

I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those times. Surely you understand. You must understand. Do you look thousands of years into the future? Do you measure what's happening to you now by what may matter a thousand years hence? I was stumbling and lurching, groping and from time to time drowning, as any man might.

The fact is, just as Anne's contributions towards the reign's triumphs should not be overlooked, so she cannot be absolved from her part in less praiseworthy events. The idea that Anne was hopelessly weak and ineffectual, and constantly imposed on by others does not stand up to scrutiny.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.

The analysis, based on past events, certainly seems sound. But following your instincts is the only way you're going to do something unsound.

Rather, in coining the term "inverted totalitarianism" I tried to find a name for a new type of political system, seemingly one driven by abstract totalizing powers, not by personal rule, one that succeeds by encouraging political disengagement rather than mass mobilization, that relies more on "private" media than on public agencies to disseminate propaganda reinforcing the official version of events.

My memory is strange that way. I often remember people I've never met and events and places I've never seen. I don't think I'm some mystical bastard. I just think I pay attention to the details.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so.

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.