Alan Watts Quotes, Flames Quotes, Events Quotes

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

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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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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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All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

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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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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

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I've been through a lot of ups and downs. I've been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there's not one specific event or thought that I'm dealing with or drawing from necessarily.

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

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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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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

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

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Events Quotes , Literature Quotes

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

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