best quotations about
Events |
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Quotations
 | There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 36 likes |
 | To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 11 likes |
 | This is not an event, it is a piece of news. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 7 likes |
| The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 5 likes |
 | What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 5 likes |
 | If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 3 likes |
 | Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 3 likes |
 | The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 2 likes |
 | People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes |
 | A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 2 likes |
 | You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 1 likes |
 | There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. |
 | It was the unexpected that happened, always. |
 | The possible ranks higher than the actual. |
 | Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events! |
 | The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. |
 | So little of what could happen does happen. |
 | Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does. |
 | My main object in life is to see what will happen next. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. |
 | Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. |
 | Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event. |
 | History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Events cast long shadows before. One such event would be a war. But how are shadows to be seen When total darkness fills the screen? — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 5 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The future is hidden from all men and great events hang on small chances. Το μέλλον άδηλον πάσιν ανθρώποις και μικροί καιροί μεγάλων πραγμάτων αίτιοι γίγνονται. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 13 likes |
| Everything in the past is judged by the outcome of the last event. Προς γαρ το τελευταίον εκβάν, έκαστον των πριν υπαρξάντων κρίνεται. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 5 likes |
