T. S. Eliot Quotes, Events Quotes, Bottles Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

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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 truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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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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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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The act is judged of by the event.

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

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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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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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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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