Events Quotes

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“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

Margaret Atwood
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Erik Pevernagie
“Stolen moments” create a feeling of enjoyment in our “intensive time” awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. ("Stolen moments" )”
Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie
“Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )”
Erik Pevernagie

Ernesto Sabato
“Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.”
Ernesto Sábato

Terry Pratchett
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.”
Terry Pratchett

Benoît B. Mandelbrot
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”
Benoît B. Mandelbrot

“For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.”
Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
“Was Ali a poor, illiterate, village boy when he met Wallace, as has generally been believed? Or, did he have an important and interesting backstory?”
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

Ana Claudia Antunes
“It's all a series of serendipities
with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal possibilities
Through which love transcends.”
Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

Doug Dillon
“Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.”
Doug Dillon

Joan Lowery Nixon
“Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.”
Joan Lowery Nixon, Nightmare

Michel Faber
“Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events”
Michel Faber

John Bowlby
“It will happen but it will take time.”
John Bowlby

Scarlett Thomas
“Not all events are stories.”
Scarlett Thomas, Going Out

Scarlett Thomas
“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”
Scarlett Thomas, Going Out

Doug Dillon
“Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we “happen” to encounter.”
Doug Dillon

Robert Penn Warren
“. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important.”
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

Christina  Estes
“This just became the must-attend service of the year.”
Christina Estes, Off the Air

Penelope Lively
“There is what you intend to happen, and there is what happens. Events slip from the grasp; people, above all, evade. They set out as one thing, and become another.”
Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

Penelope Lively
“Perhaps he is one of those people who are able to go through life step by step, for whom what happens, happens, and that is that. For whom today is uncontaminated by yesterday.”
Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“The Maker perfectly arrange events in every moment.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“The events of life are so unpredictable.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Networking is more than just exchanging business cards and attending trade shows! It's about building genuine relationships, sharing knowledge, and creating a solid support system.”
Jason Langella

Anthony T. Hincks
“Sorrow is full of unvoiced regrets.”
Anthony T. Hincks

“A single step remembered is better than a thousand steps forgotten.”
Craig D Lounsbrough

Maria Karvouni
“Knowledge is complicated. There are infinite events that lead to a result event you cannot know.

The addition of information can make you change your mind about something.”
Maria Karvouni, The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing

Morgan Housel
“If you know where we have been, you realize we have no idea where we are going. Events compound in unfathomable ways.”
Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

Lisa Masiello
“Trade shows and events drive a surge in readership for trade magazines, websites, and newspapers. This spike is a prime opportunity to expose your company to thousands of potential buyers.”
Lisa Masiello, Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro

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