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Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have read more
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. read more
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought read more
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a read more
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their read more
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write read more
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.