Quotes about Events
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man…. Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.
— John Adams
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.
— Jessica Ennis-Hill
The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.
— Edith Wharton
My principles enable me to form my judgment upon men and actions in history, just as they do in common life, and are not formed out of events and characters, either present or past. History is a preceptor of prudence, not of principles. The principles of true politics are those of morality enlarged; and I neither now do, nor ever will, admit of any other.
— Edmund Burke
Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery is largely what religious people mean by "finding their soul.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
— Rick Warren
Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day.
— Elizabeth George
We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary
— Richard Paul Evans