Quotes About Events

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote movingly about having her own equivalent of a Bat Cave, but in the end, she found consolation by telling herself, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." I agreed with this, but I still couldn't get the small things or people out of my head. EVENTS IN MY PERSONAL LIFE required me to understand better where my "bats" were coming from.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

La historia nunca es espontánea. Incluso, rara vez es una cadena de eventos

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

a story's plot has a beginning, middle, and end consisting of a sequence of events developed around a particular conflict or gradual unveiling. As far as worship-as-story is concerned, this guiding story arc has already been provided for us in the church calendar or liturgical year. It's not a plot we're creating from scratch.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.