Virginia Woolf Quotes, Mean Quotes, Events Quotes

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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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.

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Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

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