She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpo...
An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endle...
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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