Events Quotes - Page 3

• Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dream, Hope, Inspiration

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

  Cleopatra

  Terrible Events, Comfort, Seduction

  "Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence". Book by Valerie Gager, Valerie L. Gager, Cambridge University Press, p. 266, 1996.

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• Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Essence, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (1973). “De Profundis and Other Writings”, p.264, Penguin UK

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• It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Real, Limits, Causes

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• Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

  Max Cannon

  Culture, Yeah, Currents

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• Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

  Jane Roberts

  Dream, Awake, Perceive

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• The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

  Christopher Darden

  Feet, Lawyer, Inspired

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• Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

  Alanis Morissette

  Spiritual, Kids, Two

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• Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

  William Cowper

  Creeps, Please

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.50

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• The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Art, Mind, Sorrow

  James Freeman Clarke (1871). “Go up higher; or, Religion in common life (sermons).”, p.28

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• All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

  James A. Michener

  Fall, Acceptance, Games

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• Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Perspective, Matter, Unexpected

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

  Herbert Benson

  Way, Complexity

  Herbert Benson (1976). “The Relaxation Response”, G K Hall & Company

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• In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

  Andre Breton

  Future, Humanity, World

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• Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Views, Point Of View, Wells

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Humor brings insight and tolerance.

  Agnes Repplier

  Tolerance, Ironic, Irony

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• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

  Alfred Adler

  Trust, Work, Commitment

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• The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

  Horace Walpole

  Wise, Firsts, Prosperity

  Letter to Thos. Walpole, 19 February 1785, in 'Letters'

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• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  Vincent Canby

  Feelings, Fiction, Mysterious

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• Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Ideas, Heaven, Feelings

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• Great events have sent before them their announcements.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Announcements, Great Events

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• You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Assuming, Invention

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

  Eudora Welty

  Life, Time, Order

  1984 One Writer's Beginnings, II. 'Learning to See'.

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• I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

  Wilford Brimley

  Team, High Heels, Rope

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