We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
~ Samuel Adams
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
~ Jane Roberts
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
~ Julius Caesar
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
~ Stephen Hawking
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
~ Alice Meynell
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
~ George Santayana
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
~ Jefferson Davis
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.
~ Bill Gates
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
~ Josh Mcdowell
Events are not a matter of chance.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
~ Helmut Kohl
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
~ Gary Weiss
I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.
~ Sergio Mattarella
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
~ H. L. Mencken
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
~ Haile Selassie
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
~ Og Mandino
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
~ Tim Holden
