External Event

Famous quotes containing the words external and/or event:

“When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.”
—Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)