Events Quotes - Page 45

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen.

We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.

Each one of us is a unique event in the universe.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.

Whenever I visit an industrialized nation that isn't the United States, it immediately becomes apparent how much more educated and informed and aware of international events their citizens are compared to Americans.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.