A.S.A. Harrison Quotes, Events Quotes, Details Quotes

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

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

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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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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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It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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

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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

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

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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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