Events Quotes - Page 38

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

I'm following a real event and real people.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.

You might be a redneck if your momma gives you tips on how to sneak booze into sporting events.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.