Events Over Quotes

#1. Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any external threat would reveal itself in due time and must be dealt with then. But he could not help wondering if they had done

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#3. plot is how the dramatic events (action) in a story change and/or transform the main character (emotion) over time in a meaningful way (theme).

Martha Alderson

#4. Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.

Beaumont Newhall

#6. The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

Harold Geneen

#7. It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer ... a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.

Christopher Moore

#8. He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [ ... ] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

Christopher Paolini

#9. Just before I'd moved to New York, two historic events had occurred: The birth control pill had been invented, and the first Julia Child cookbook was published. As a result, everyone was having sex, and when the sex was over, you cooked something.

Nora Ephron

#10. History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking
an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#11. What determined the outcome of a life? A series of random events you had no control over, or did some cosmic gravity pull everything in the direction it was predestined to go?

Jo Nesbo

#12. We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

Eliza Dushku

#13. Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.

John Carmack

#14. Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

Thomas Carlyle

#15. But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

Lawrence Durrell

#16. The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Christian Lous Lange

#18. You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.

Doris Lessing

#19. If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?

James Joyce

#20. President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

Ben Shapiro

#21. In the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

Lisa Unger

#22. Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

John William Draper

#24. It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.

Helen Oyeyemi

#25. No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Daniel J. Levitin

#26. One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children's and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics.

Steve Sheinkin

#27. The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

Deborah Hopkinson

#29. Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

Guy Finley

#30. Time passes fast when you're not in step. If you think for a moment that you can get it back, wake up - you can't. Some people think time is theory. Everything is a cycle of events happening over and over. If you think this is true, then be aware and learn from your mistakes.

Mandi Lynn

#31. As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.'

Albert Einstein

#32. My best tip: Create re-occurring calendar events for your exercise times. When a conflict arises, it forces you to consciously choose work over exercise, and often you'll find you have time for both.

Jessica Scorpio

#33. It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.

Isabel Allende

#34. Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.

Zicheng Hong

#35. Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.

Julian Castro

#36. This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

Frederick Lenz

#38. I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

Jeanne DuPrau

#39. Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.

Margaret Atwood

#40. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, author of Meditations. Quoth said emperor: It is not death a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. And also: You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

Claire North

#41. Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

James MacDonald

#42. Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

Steven Redhead

#43. All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

Francis Bacon

#44. As the eclipse progresses, a confusion of chattering birds sweeps low in search of dusk and their shadows skip over the water's surface and it makes perfect sense that these small creatures should be so moved by events beyond their reckoning.

John Pipkin

#45. When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

Carl Hagelin

#46. While, naturally, he has to gauge risk, to read the elements, he still often bemoans the hardships of the past. He constantly puzzles over the role of remote influences, like the after-life. He wants to know why events happen as they do, how control is exercised from beyond understanding.

Peter Gray

#47. I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

Yanni

#48. It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.

Arthur Schnitzler

#49. But there is no point in burdening your heart with guilt over events that are not your fault.

Amish Tripathi

#50. When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

Carl Lewis

#51. So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

Phil Lesh

#52. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Joseph Conrad

#53. Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.

Christina Bartolomeo

#54. Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.

Seth Godin

#55. I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Alex Honnold

#56. She referred to the high-rise as if it were some kind of huge animate presence, brooding over them and keeping a magisterial eye on the events taking place.

J.G. Ballard

#57. The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.

Dee Dee Myers

#58. Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

Lisel Mueller

#59. When there's a history between people, it makes for some serious complications - even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There's only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.

Megan Thomason

#60. Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Nick Flynn

#61. I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

Rob Mariano

#62. Time, it covered over everything eventually. Events, people, memory. Chiniquy had disappeared beneath Time.

Louise Penny

#63. It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he holds such absolute control over it that no single event in connection with it can take place without his permission

James Petigru Boyce

#64. God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Euripides

#65. A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time.

Dan Ariely

#66. I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Tom Stoppard

#67. A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

Frederick Lenz

#68. Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Bill Vaughan

#69. The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life, one psychologist has remarked.

Alfie Kohn

#70. As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#71. A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Henry Kissinger

#72. Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

Gavyn Davies

#73. Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.

Jacqui Stedmon

#74. Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't recall life as it was. Instead, we remember what was different, frightening, or strange, and we turn our lives into the fun-house mirror images of the truth.

Jamie Kain

#75. That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

Ann Patchett

#76. She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her.

David Brooks

#77. There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can't just write poems. We have to put poems into action.

Jeremiah Walton

#78. High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

Tony Robbins

#79. We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

Viktor E. Frankl

#80. I could accept my circumstances, my life, people, and even events around me, without giving my approval or releasing my control over such. I don't have to like what happened; I just need to accept that it indeed occurred.

Sharon E. Rainey

#81. You would renounce organizing your future. You would let yourself be guided by the randomness of encounters and events, indifferent to one choice over another.

Edouard Leve

#82. The anger inside me simmers away at a constant roil. It's as if I can't think about anything else. I turn the events of the last couple of months over and over in my head.

Marissa Farrar

#83. In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

Paul Virilio

#84. Whatever mystery attaches to such a death is imposed on it by those who live. It is a tribute to the human spirit that the life preceding triumphs over the ugly events that most of us will experience as we die, or as we move toward our last moments.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#85. Today's events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God's objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise.

Ron Paul

#86. If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

Martin Seligman

#87. The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter ... The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

George Gilder

#88. There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others.

That's not what leadership is any more.

Phil Dourado

#89. I agree. I have a therapist now, one with whom I'm actually honest, and we've been over the events of my life again and again - rehashing without judgment the things I've done, the things that have been done to me, and how I ultimately saved myself.

Lisa Unger

#90. I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

Sylvester Stallone

#91. An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.

Mason Cooley

#92. He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#93. The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

Miguel Ferrer

#94. This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.

Colin Meloy

#95. 2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

Rand Paul

#96. Dangerous events were transformed over the years into humorous anecdotes; painful moments were modified into sweet tales of innocence.

Nicholas Sparks

#97. Our coveting exposes that we have set our hearts upon earthly gain. The more we seek our treasure outside of Christ, the more we falsely believe that God is lacking in His goodness to us. Essentially, our coveting accuses God of a failure to reign well over the events in our lives. Failing

Melissa B. Kruger

#98. I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review of the events that led to Michael Brown's death.

Roy Blunt

#99. You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

#100. In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings.

Peg O'Connor