EVENTS

Related Subjects: Adventure, Circumstances, Fate

1. The signs of the times.—Bible, Matthew 14:3
   

2. There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.—BULWER-LYTTON, What Will He Do With It
   

3. Often do the spirits
   Of great events stride on before the events,
   And in today already walks tomorrow.—COLERIDGE, Wallenstein
   

4. Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.—COWPER

5. Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this
   true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

6. There is no faith, and no stoicism, and no philosophy, that a mortal man can possibly evoke, which will stand the final test in a real impassioned onset of Life and Passion upon him. Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.—HERMAN MELVILLE, Pierre
   

7. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.—BERNARD SHAW, Back to Methuselah
   

8. There is a rhythm of events thanks to which a man, having completed what he set out to do, lingers amid the gestures of activity; he finds it hard to realize that his day is over; in fantasy he still pursues the round of active movement. He cannot accept repose; he does not know that he is dreaming; the harmony formed by doing and being eludes him.—JACOB WASSERMANN, Stanley