Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Advice Quotes, Events Quotes

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

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

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

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

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version 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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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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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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

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