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

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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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You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

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

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

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

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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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... 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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The act is judged of by the event.

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

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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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