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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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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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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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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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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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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

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

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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

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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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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

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

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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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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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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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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain 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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