T. S. Eliot Quotes, People Quotes, Events Quotes

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

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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

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It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

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

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Places remember events.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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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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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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We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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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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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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