events

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.

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

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 endless rows on the way to Rome.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Events are not a matter of chance.

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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.

The event of history is hidden in time.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we __appen_ to encounter.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.