Events Quote by Kate Atkinson Download Open image “Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.” — Kate Atkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events People Retrospect Significance
Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history. — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another. — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity. — Willie Jolley Copy Share Image
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
