When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event. . . I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.
Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.
After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was never there. It was at the Schnorrstrasse that Eva [Braun] and he first really got to know each other. Some of this was before Geli Raubal's death, much of it was after that event.
Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.
Our response to an event is more important than the event itself.
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.
So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr. , Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict. ]
Events and developments, such as. . . the Copernican Revolution,. . . occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
Everybody when they saw it, they said, "Did Willie Nelson sign your hat?" I'd say, "No, that'd be Willie Knucklehead - Robertson, OK?" We were at an event for the fans and I took my hat off and set it down on the couch, and he signed it. I said, "What are you doing, idiot?" He said, "Look, I was in the zone, and you just happened to put your hat in my zone. "