Quotes
Quotes about Events
Dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woful time.
O thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fix'd events of fate's remote decrees.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
Two rules we should always have ready,--that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Its paperback version is a poor but necessary thing, a concession to the pocket, the sickly child of the original. Book can be taken as an acronym standing for Box of the Organized Knowledge. The book called a novel is a box from which characters and events are waiting to emerge at the raising of the lid. It is a solidity, a paperback is a ghost.
Music is a purer art (than literature) because it has no direct relationship to human events. It is totally outside the field of moral judgment
What is the past, that inert ill-understood mass of vague events, that it should exert an influence on the sunlit reality of now?
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes."
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
