“The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.”
Rene Descartes
“The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible”
Albert Einstein
“Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.”
Winston Churchill
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why [they] will always leave a clue.”
Peter Ackroyd