Anton Chekhov Quotes, Past Quotes, Events Quotes

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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The act is judged of by the event.

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Places remember events.

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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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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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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

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

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I've been through a lot of ups and downs. I've been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there's not one specific event or thought that I'm dealing with or drawing from necessarily.

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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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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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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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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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