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“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.”

Force Events Approach Train Stranger Release Unexpected Bottles Invites Genies

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.”

Humans Important Joy Effects Events Products Industry Disease Draws Mark Train Prosperity Human Life Commerce Agriculture Harvest Insects Parasites Deranged

Author:Elias Hasket Derby

“Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.”

Has Beens Might Happens Running Journey Events Train Worried Seats Preparing Might Have Been

Book:The street of crocodiles and other stories

Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories

“I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it.”

Needs Should Has Beens Bigs Courses Views Steps Wonderful Trouble Events Forgiving Train Dumb Generous Glorious Bless Compassionate Circus Messy Parades God Bless

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”

Humans Past Principles Events Experience Train Guides Human Life Customs Past Experiences

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.”

Events Train Interviews Wrecks Earthquakes Pseudo Train Wrecks

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.”

Trying Air Events Ten Balls Train Coaches Jugglers

Author:Dan O'Brien

“What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.”

Way Littles Ideas Sports Challenges Conditions Events Overcoming Entrepreneur Train Athlete Encounters Unpredictable Undefined

Author:Naveen Jain

“I am still been pumped to train and get myself ready for the biggest events.”

Stills Events Ready Train

Author:Andy Murray