#event

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events ↗

— Michel Faber

#life #dating

If one Egyptian tailor hadn’t cheated on the threads of Joseph’s mantle, Potiphar’s wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh’s dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#god-s-plan #god-s-will #jesus #jews #joseph

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#been #blame #credit #engineered #events

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#unfortunate-event #life

Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece. ↗

— Ernesto Sabato

#life #time #life

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#seventeen #sixteen #sweet #sweet-sixteen #teens

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. ↗

— Al Stewart

#face #must #pretend #whoever #you

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#change

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#contests #deal #dislike #doctrines #events

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

#appears #artificial #attempt #cause #change