| |  | | | | | | | | | | | A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. | | Ambrose Bierce | | | All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word | | Adolf Hitler | | | Do 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 | | Epictetus | | | Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | | Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation | | Charlotte Bronte | | | The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to | | David Hume | | | | | 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 Hemingway | | | There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. | | Honore de Balzac | | | There 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 Bach | | | To 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. Eliot | | | Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events. | | Marshall McLuhan | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 12 of 12 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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