Events Quotes

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

Events are not a matter of chance.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

I'm going to the main event of Wrestlemania! Where're you going?

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.