Events Quotes

3166 Events quotes by 2208 unique authors

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event… — Leo Tolstoy
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is… — Laura Schlessinger
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything… — Eckhart Tolle
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees… — Joan D. Chittister
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G. Wells
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very… — Abraham Lincoln
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action… — Albert Einstein
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events? — Epictetus
Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. — George Santayana
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events. — Billy Graham
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where… — Tryon Edwards
See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process. — Barry Lyga
The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important… — Robert D. Hales
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come… — Anne Lamott
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther

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