Events Quote by John Turturro

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

— Anonymous

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

— Arthur Eddington

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

— Barbara Sher

“I’m a teacher of history in a high school in Saint Paul and what I know from my studies and from my life is…

— William Kent Krueger

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember…

— Ian Mcewan

I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening…

— Noam Chomsky

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

— David Blunkett

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions…

— Micha Bar-Am

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and…

— Robin Hobb