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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

Life, Soul, Moment

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

After, Place, Taken

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Mind, Chief

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar

Failure, Person, Remember

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

Failure, Single, Few

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark

Christmas, Home, Heart

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley

Snow, Different, Another

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben

Success, Graduation, Students

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Love, Fear

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy

Positive, Winners, Habit

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

Change, Future, Bad

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
Ron Paul

Crisis, Big, Rejection

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life, Death, Experience

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Live, Single, Easy

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George Orwell

Life, Early, Newspaper

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott

Learning, Emotional, May

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Afraid, Once

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney

Good, Hurt, Sexy

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Second, Fraction

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart

Laughter, Step, Move

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon

History, War, American

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Sophocles

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman

Emotional, Thinking, Brain

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick

Result, Cause, Assumption

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
Deepak Chopra

Happen, Try, Whole

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, State, Strike

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
James Hillman

Hurt, Thought, Hurting

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
Freddie Mercury

Live, Album, Concert

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness, After, Sweet

When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
Jerry Saltz

Money, Art, Until

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