Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.
I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.
I had a calling, this is what happened, I've explained the story many times. I've had my priest on, I've had atheists on. When I explain my conversion to atheists, my personal series of events, they go, "Oh, alright."
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.
The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.
Music was a big part of my family with gatherings, picnics, barbecues.
Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
When you start thinking about leaving, choose your moment carefully. Go out while you’re still on top, not when you’re no longer in control of events.
These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
Reform is a process, and not an event.
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.
Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.
