Important Events Quotes

• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Life Is

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

  Ray Dalio

  Thinking, Attention, Happens

  "Ray Dalio Succinctly Explained His Investment Thesis - And It's Deep" by Linette Lopez, www.businessinsider.com. September 21, 2012.

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• 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.

  Richard Burton

  Dream, Memories, Men

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• The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

  Austin O'Malley

  Marriage, Three, Birth

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• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Printing, Invention, Humans

  "Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Jesus, Stories, Resurrection

  William Lyon Phelps (1925). “Human Nature and the Gospel”

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• The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

  Charles Darwin

  Uncles, Science, Offering

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.113, NYU Press

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• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Chance, Life Happens, Important

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• We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Weed, Mean

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• Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.

  Toby Hemenway

  Animal, Rocks, Interesting

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• Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

  Alfred Nobel

  Life, Strong, Science

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• I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Sinai

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

  James Redfield

  Determination, Pain, Live Life

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• There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Choices, Affair

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Morning, Zoos

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

  Arthur Helps

  Mistake, Humility, Fate

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Children, Teaching

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

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• In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Numbers, Years

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• There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.

  Richard Bach

  Forget Everything, Gone, Remember

  An Interview with Richard Bach by Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

  Sophia Loren

  Beautiful, Winning, Careers

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

  Voltaire

  Atheism, Church, Revolution

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• First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life.

  Matt Cullen

  Prayer, Thinking, Games

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In war, important events result from trivial causes.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Causes, Results

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• A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Loss, Men

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