#events

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #because #cowardice #die #live

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#events #life #major #music #really

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency. ↗

— Tom Daley

#both #champion #confidence #consistency #diving

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#apparently #being #between #broad #changed

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

#events #fortune #herself #madness #make

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#events #happenings #mental #passive #said

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#caprice #conditions #constant #establishment #events

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#events #ever #happened #nothing #people

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#between #distraction #events #fiance #going