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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. -- Marcus Aurelius
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. -- Eudora Welty
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. -- Marcus Aurelius
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. -- Groucho Marx
Events tend to recur in cycles. -- W. Clement Stone
Events become feelings, feelings become events -- Jerry Spinelli
Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start. -- James Salter
Events are not a matter of chance. -- Gamal Abdel Nasser
Events are influenced by our very great desires. -- William James
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. -- Livy
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. -- Mason Cooley
Events are less important than our responses to them. -- John Hersey
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. -- Walter Lord
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment. -- Epictetus
Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them. -- Lee H. Hamilton
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. -- William Cowper
Events bring you small joy, while #"? existence brings you bliss. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one. -- Jean Harlow
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. -- Honore de Balzac
Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us. -- Vanna Bonta
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them. -- Arthur Eddington
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable. -- Bill Loguidice
Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem... -- P.W. Creighton
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing. -- Rush Limbaugh
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. -- Henry David Thoreau
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. -- Dan Simmons
Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world. -- Michael Hardt
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. -- Yoko Ono
Great events have sent before them their announcements. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. -- Albert Einstein
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered. -- William Shakespeare
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. -- Jefferson Davis
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. -- Alice Meynell
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. -- Alfred Adler
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. -- Adolf Hitler
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. -- George Santayana
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively. -- Herbert Benson
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life. -- John Oliver
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. -- Tony Robbins
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. -- Stendhal
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. -- William Ralph Inge
and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey. -- Daniel Handler
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. -- Maya Angelou
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. -- Wade Boggs
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. -- Thomas Hardy
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events. -- Joel Osteen
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. -- Hannah Arendt
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. -- Ernest Hemingway
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control... -- T. S. Eliot
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. -- Robert Kennedy
Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see. -- Hulk Hogan
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. -- Richard Bach
Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong. -- Kendra Wilkinson
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren't able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels. -- Richie Havens
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew. -- Rachel Cusk
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect. -- Steven Pinker
Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not? -- Queen Latifah
At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey. -- Lemony Snicket
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. -- Stephen Kinzer
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish. -- Nostradamus
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard. -- Jeff Ross
The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves -- Queen Victoria
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation -- Charlotte Bronte
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news -- Charles A. Dana
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king -- Ambrose Bierce
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished -- Amelia E. Barr
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 themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to -- David Hume
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire -- Honore de Balzac
Places remember events. -- James Joyce
Consult duty not events. -- Walter Savage Landor
Time define sacred events. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The dearest events are summer-rain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certain signs precede certain events. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Relationships are never chance events. -- Keith Ablow
What a strange turn of events. -- Delta Goodrem
Evil events from evil causes spring. -- Aristophanes
Never interfere with events of nature. -- Sameh Elsayed
Coming events cast their shadows before. -- Thomas Campbell
You cannot penetrate events with reportage. -- Michelangelo Antonioni
Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? -- Sam Shoemaker
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Memories contain hidden editorials on current events. -- Mason Cooley
Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
In war trivial causes produce momentous events. -- Julius Caesar
It is human choices that move events. -- George W. Bush
Duty is ours and events are God's. -- Angelina Grimke
Headlines twice the size of the events. -- John Galsworthy
The fancies of wine are authentic events. -- Italo Svevo
Future events cast their shadow before them. -- Tim LaHaye
In war, important events result from trivial causes. -- Julius Caesar
Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. -- Ana Monnar
The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments. -- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. -- Hannah Arendt
Markets can influence the events that they anticipate. -- George Soros
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In real life, events seem much less dramatic. -- Jessica Savitch
The world is filled with great sporting events. -- Alex Berenson
My memories of events and games are fragmented. -- Zinedine Zidane
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. -- Robert Morgan
Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends. -- Mallory Ortberg
Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV. -- Umberto Eco
Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur. -- Gavin Extence
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. -- Allan Gurganus
In the midst of events there is no perspective. -- Barbara Tuchman
News Coverage!! As news expose rather than cover events. -- Henry David Thoreau

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