Chain Of Events Quotes

• By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

  Andy Andrews

  Hands, Events, Chains

  FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Oct 28, 2012

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• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  Wade Boggs

  Positive, Attitude, Ties

  "The Frame We Put Around Our Circumstances" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Events, Literature, Facts

  "The Five Orange Pips" (1891). The key words here are "in all its bearings" and "thoroughly." In real life, of course, it's deucedly difficult.

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• In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

  Hannah Szenes

  Destiny, Events, Needs

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

  John Thorn

  Games, Ties, Events

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• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

  Jonathan Richman

  Party, Ties, Boston

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• Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

  Haruki Murakami

  Events, Might, Existentialism

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.272, Random House

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• Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

  Stephen Graham

  Life, Science, Events

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• The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

  Anton Chekhov

  Past, Events, Unbroken

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• Adventures are funny things.
  Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events.
  But some adventures are meant for you and you alone.
  And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you’d go.
  Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Funny Things

  Wayne Thomas Batson (2006). “The Final Storm”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people (e.g., those on fixed incomes such as annuities, interest, or pensions) who never receive the new money.

  Murray Rothbard

  People, Liberty, Events

  "The Case Against the Fed" by Murray Rothbard, mises.org. June 5, 2009.

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• This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

  Walter Benjamin

  Angel, Past, Wings

  "Theses on the Philosophy of History". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1955.

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• Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.

  Walden Bello

  People, Important, Development

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• it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Reality, Events

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• The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.

  Robert Jastrow

  Men, Light, Energy

  "Have Astronomers" by Robert Jastrow, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 1978.

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• It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There can be a lot of differing opinions in a mainstream comic book, you know? "Rogue would never do this!" But I can say, "No, Rogue suffered the death of Charles Xavier and it broke her down and she stumbled into a dark place and she started fixating on the Scarlet Witch as the cause of it all" — which, there is a logical chain of events that lead to the Scarlet Witch. And in the confusion, she thought Wanda was up to doing it again and she did what she thought was best.

  Rick Remender

  Book, Character, Dark

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• The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Divorce, Past

  "Beach nut". Interview with Sue Wheat, www.salon.com. February 11, 2000.

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• In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit. This very attempt to blot out forever the hopes of an enslaved people may be one necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the downfall and complete overthrow of the whole slave system.

  Frederick Douglass

  Views, People, Decision

  Frederick Douglass (2000). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.348, Chicago Review Press

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• Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Nice, Mean

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Facts, Events

  The Sacred Wood "Hamlet and His Problems" (1920).

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• Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.

  Robert Jastrow

  Biblical, Men, Light

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• Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

  Jim Rohn

  Discipline, People, Ambitious

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• The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It’s a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don’t choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don’t want to be later.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Decisions You Make, Choices, Events

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