Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...
She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
Strategy draws its inspiration each century, or rather at each moment of history, from the problems which events themselves pose.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
… history itself appears to be abandoning the eruption of events in favor of stable structures
If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.
Events rather than politicians have put important issues on the table.
Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.
I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.
I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
The act is judged of by the event.
