To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Thomas Merton

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Og Mandino

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Harry S. Truman

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Samuel Adams

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein

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 Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
Jon Stewart

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
Will Ferrell

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Euripides

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith