Events Quotes · Page 13

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

— George Santayana

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

— Neal Shusterman

The events in our lives is what shapes us, but it's the choices we make that define us.

— Anonymous

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

— Duane Michals

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

— Ira Sachs

Events bring you small joy, while # existence brings you bliss.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

— Tony Todd

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

— David Blunkett

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants…

— William Zinsser

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

— Brian K. Vaughan

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and…

— Thomas Pynchon

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain…

— Tom Stoppard

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

— John C. Maxwell

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

— Andrea Hirata

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people…

— Leo Tolstoy

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities.…

— Teju Cole

Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,…

— Francis William Aston

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people,…

— Charles W. Pickering

I feel like fashion was much more exclusive. There weren't as many parties. There weren't as many social gatherings. It wasn't required…

— Roopal Patel

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that…

— George Orwell

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not…

— Dale Spender

It only takes a few minutes in the morning to use gratitude to Have A Magical Day by giving thanks for the…

— Rhonda Byrne

I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That…

— Craig Ferguson

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of…

— Jeanette Winterson

When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it…

— Lena Dunham

The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always…

— Albert Bandura

So rather than denying or stuffing your past, go ahead and look at it, but without judgment. Look at it, express it,…

— Lynn Grabhorn

Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay…

— M. King Hubbert

To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly…

— Epictetus

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

— Gore Vidal

“Reality exists in the mind of each. The senses are input devices for incoming data.”

— Toba Beta

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

— Craig Groeschel

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

— Dervla Murphy

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

— Tracy K. Smith

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

— Anonymous

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

— Narendra Modi