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 HemingwayAll epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word
- Adolf HitlerTo 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. EliotThere are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kübler-RossTime 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 AureliusThe 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 WeltyDo not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well
- EpictetusNever awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
- Napoleon BonaparteThere 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 BachNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
- Richard M. NixonA stunning brunette with dark features and perfect skin.
- Nicole Johnson