#events

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#destiny #fulfilling #her #ideal #maid

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ↗

— Andre Gide

#like #memory #nothing #prevents

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. ↗

— Bob Graham

#confidence #events #i #president #presumed

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#events #general #gives #great #help

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

#correct #events #ever #fun #march

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#assume #events #great #his #invention