Events Quotes - Page 32

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.