Events Quotes - Page 10

• Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Damage, Influence, Lifetime

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• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Color, People

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

  Epictetus

  Two, Evil, Principles

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.6

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• All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Body, Determined, Conception

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• Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

  Edmund Husserl

  World, Way, Consciousness

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Mouths, Faces

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

  Walter Lord

  Guides

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• When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Song, War, World

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• In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

  Georg Simmel

  Order, Mind, Doe

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

  George Galloway

  Murder, Syria, Train

  "Galloway heaps praise on Syrian regime". www.scotsman.com. November 18, 2005.

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• Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Years, Calendars

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1976, Delphi Classics

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• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Mean, Past

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• Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Powerful, Fear, Groups

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'

  Bob Dole

  White, Evil, House

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• This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Past, Opportunity, Giving

  Reginald Turnill, Buzz Aldrin (2007). “The Moonlandings: An Eyewitness Account”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

  Freeman Dyson

  Fun, Adventure, Space

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• We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress."

  Jean Gebser

  Progress, Development, Evolution

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.

  Graeme Goldsworthy

  Spiritual, Mean, Responsibility

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• The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Good Life, Unfinished Business, Way

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• Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

  Robin Hobb

  Short Life, Past, Feelings

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• 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.

  Doris Salcedo

  Art, Political, Everyday

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• Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

  Horace Walpole

  Growing Up, Memories, Blessing

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• Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.

  Sarah Lewis

  Commitment, Often Is, Views

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

  Alice Childress

  Black, Sides, Realizing

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• The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.

  Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  Feelings, Important, Before And After

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