Alan Lightman Quotes, Artist Quotes, Events Quotes

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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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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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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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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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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

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

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

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

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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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Even a fool is wise after an event.

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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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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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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

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

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

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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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