#events

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#along #cares #carries #civilization #complete

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer. ↗

— Christopher Darden

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#covered #habit #keeps #prevents #realism

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#apply #been #beyond #caught #circumstances

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

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John Thorn

#chain #clear #describes #events #game

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. ↗

— Will Durant

#centuries #earth #events #hours #informed

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ↗

— Andre Gide

#like #memory #nothing #prevents

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

— T. S. Eliot

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