Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Votes: 4
Eleanor RooseveltYou have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Votes: 4
Marcus AureliusEvents are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Votes: 3
Honore de BalzacIn politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. Votes: 3
Napoleon BonaparteLife is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliEvents That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem... Votes: 3
P.W. CreightonEvents in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable. Votes: 3
Bill LoguidiceEvents sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing. Votes: 3
Rush LimbaughEvents of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world. Votes: 3
Michael HardtEvents are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. Votes: 3
Yoko OnoThe enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. Votes: 2
John Kenneth GalbraithHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Votes: 2
Napoleon BonaparteNeither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. Votes: 2
Jefferson DavisTrust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Votes: 2
Alfred AdlerThere are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. Votes: 2
Elisabeth Kubler-RossAll epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. Votes: 2
Adolf HitlerHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. Votes: 2
George SantayanaIt's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Votes: 2
Tony RobbinsYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Votes: 2
Maya AngelouThe voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve Votes: 1
Thomas Babington MacaulayGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves Votes: 1
Queen VictoriaLife is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation Votes: 1
Charlotte BronteWhen a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news Votes: 1
Charles A. DanaThe uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments. Votes: 0
Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de LevisIn extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroAmid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelParanormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter. Votes: 0
C. Douglas DillonThe causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroSadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. Votes: 0
Richard G. ScottHistory is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. Votes: 0
Robert SmithsonTruth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMost people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. Votes: 0
Kate AtkinsonYour house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life. Votes: 0
Chris Van AllsburgLife is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinWhat if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?" Votes: 0
Joel C. RosenbergI can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower Votes: 0
Jacqueline CareyNature of life is fragile. Uncontrollable events happen all the time in life. Votes: 0
Kishore BansalGreat events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes. Votes: 0
Andrew Michael RamsayWe are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. Votes: 0
Jean BaudrillardI think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history. Votes: 0
Max von SydowPolitics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. Votes: 0
Robert HarrisThe adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics. Votes: 0
Theodore SchultzGreat hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonNational events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events. Votes: 0
Jane AddamsPeople to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotThe witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. Votes: 0
Larry NivenI express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettSometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. Votes: 0
Young-Ha KimThere are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft. Votes: 0
Steven M. GreerThe threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness. Votes: 0
Sheri FinkThree events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world. Votes: 0
Esther WilliamsLife might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiFree will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinThe unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnWhy should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting? Votes: 0
Frank BucklesYour responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves. Votes: 0
Virginia SatirAmong intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. Votes: 0
SallustWe live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. Votes: 0
H. G. WellsFeelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. Votes: 0
Ralph MarstonRock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that. Votes: 0
Richard LloydWhen you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you're truly free. Votes: 0
Steve PavlinaThe events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. Votes: 0
Catherine McCormackWorld events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. Votes: 0
Gore VidalThe length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. Votes: 0
PtolemyTelevision was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place. Votes: 0
Richard LloydEven trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events. Votes: 0
Will McDonoughWhenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. Votes: 0
Greg KinnearNews events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows. Votes: 0
Jessica SavitchWe not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. Votes: 0
Kenneth BurkeHistory is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. Votes: 0
Earnest HootonThe tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001. Votes: 0
Neil PeartChrist appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. Votes: 0
Josh McDowellOne of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieThe thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such. Votes: 0
Andrea Goegleinman cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer Votes: 0
Otto von Bismarck[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax. Votes: 0
Lord KelvinGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. Votes: 0
Queen VictoriaMental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. Votes: 0
Hermann EbbinghausOver events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none. Votes: 0
John William DraperFirst principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events. Votes: 0
Marie CurieMy hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. Votes: 0
Lisa LingI don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukThe events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. Votes: 0
Eleanor FarjeonLegends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past. Votes: 0
Eiichiro OdaI have no control over events. I can only be courageously to conquer every challenge. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaEvil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done. Votes: 0
AristophanesSee the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations. Votes: 0
Adoniram JudsonSome events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. Votes: 0
Elie WieselThe events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming. Votes: 0
Robert D. HalesStupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. Votes: 0
Karl KrausAnd I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. Votes: 0
Ed BradleyAnatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. Votes: 0
Jean FernelWithout community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. Votes: 0
Ira SachsPoor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltNightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears. Votes: 0
Criss JamiIn non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . Votes: 0
Andrew LamThe elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. Votes: 0
Fritjof CapraI claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnThe greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteGiant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. Votes: 0
Jerry SaltzI have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me. Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughMy strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally. Votes: 0
Newt GingrichIt is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple. Votes: 0
L. Lionel KendrickI presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. Votes: 0
Bob GrahamThe great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. Votes: 0
Georges LefebvreSuperstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events. Votes: 0
Joy BrowneNowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events Votes: 0
Michel FaberTo talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events. Votes: 0
Taner EdisCommunicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies. Votes: 0
Rosalind WisemanSince events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyMany 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary. Votes: 0
Phyllis CheslerYou create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events. Votes: 0
John BergerI have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner. Votes: 0
David WolfeI can't determine the order of events. But I can trust God to guide my footsteps. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short Votes: 0
Charles KennedyThere is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. Votes: 0
Ram DassI'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. Votes: 0
Charles KennedyAll of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different. Votes: 0
Michael RobothamWe are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ. Votes: 0
Hal LindseyI am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake. Votes: 0
Collin PetersonI am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake. Votes: 0
Collin C. PetersonWhen I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood. Votes: 0
Elizabeth OlsenThe emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time. Votes: 0
Henry A. KissingerFor 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now. Votes: 0
George H. W. BushPeople don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained. Votes: 0
Neil StraussThe greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeI'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time. Votes: 0
Rick MercerI spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France. Votes: 0
John TeshTime has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinAs a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events. Votes: 0
Gunnar MyrdalThe first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftAll those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusThe invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. Votes: 0
Ha-Joon ChangWhatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after Votes: 0
Casey HudsonThere are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from Votes: 0
Elisabeth Kubler-RossI am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. Votes: 0
Lanford WilsonThus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroMany of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first. Votes: 0
Suze OrmanAt all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. Votes: 0
Richard CobdenThe rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. Votes: 0
J. Paul GettyThe rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. Votes: 0
Paul GettyEven the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggOur greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonWhen we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us. Votes: 0
Robert MossThe hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. Votes: 0
Thomas B. MacaulayThe reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. Votes: 0
Christopher LaschNo other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. Votes: 0
Daniel LevitinSpring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud. Votes: 0
Alice MeynellThe NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events. Votes: 0
Barton GellmanHere, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. Votes: 0
Georges CouthonYou hold all the potential for great synchronistic events to come together to transform your life. Votes: 0
Andrea GoegleinThe greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonOur blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. Votes: 0
Edith WhartonA proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household. Votes: 0
Anthea TurnerIn my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need. Votes: 0
Hannah SzenesI always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team. Votes: 0
Billie Jean KingUnexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective. Votes: 0
Mary Anne RadmacherHistory is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. Votes: 0
Charles AngoffIt is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live. Votes: 0
John FowlesTo me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. Votes: 0
Henry RollinsThe more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. Votes: 0
Trevor MoorePeople who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events. Votes: 0
David FrumI love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening. Votes: 0
Tamsin EgertonI enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they're in soccer and choral events. Votes: 0
Linda Sue ParkI love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. Votes: 0
James A. GarfieldThere are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend. Votes: 0
Stephen DunnI'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors. Votes: 0
W. P. KinsellaBeing on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families. Votes: 0
David WolfeThere are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Votes: 0
Ulysses S. GrantYeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. Votes: 0
Max CannonVictory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up? Votes: 0
Luo GuanzhongA quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective. Votes: 0
Janette OkeI haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry. Votes: 0
Robbie RobertsonThe only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneThe business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. Votes: 0
Isaac D'IsraeliUniversal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergThat man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Votes: 0
Anatole FranceHistory and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments. Votes: 0
Anne MichaelsA good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerI don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events. Votes: 0
Joel GreenblattAn unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen. Votes: 0
Per BakWhen you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraContentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. Votes: 0
T. D. JakesI've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players. Votes: 0
Ernie HarwellIt's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies. Votes: 0
Ahmed ChalabiCartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. Votes: 0
Matthew AshfordGod is in control of all events and is able to protect and provide for you His child. Votes: 0
Jim GeorgeIt is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them. Votes: 0
Eric HeidenCrimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas. Votes: 0
Pyotr ChaadayevI began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid. Votes: 0
Amy TanWe are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. Votes: 0
Lynn GrabhornWhether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneI'v planted my seeds for my upcoming events. but right now, Im just waiting for them to bloom Votes: 0
P. C. CastOn any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods. Votes: 0
PolybiusThe sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events. Votes: 0
Henry ReedNever be thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe in because of outside events. Votes: 0
John WoodenBut I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. Votes: 0
Diane WakoskiI see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. Votes: 0
Richard SchmidMy favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books. Votes: 0
Jane GreenAll activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception. Votes: 0
Ramana MaharshiThough outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them. Votes: 0
Jack KornfieldThere is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events. Votes: 0
Charles KennedyUndoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellTo view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy Votes: 0
R. A. SalvatoreI did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again. Votes: 0
David BlunkettThe President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. Votes: 0
Alan AldaI am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonHistory is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. Votes: 0
Robert HarrisThe decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them. Votes: 0
Dan O'BrienEvery beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. Votes: 0
Wislawa SzymborskaAll the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do. Votes: 0
Melina MarchettaFor the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. Votes: 0
Agnes SmedleyIf we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up. Votes: 0
Peter DavidYour point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold. Votes: 0
Mary Anne RadmacherMy parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day. Votes: 0
Lupita Nyong'oThe soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesI don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events. Votes: 0
Caterina MurinoYou might be a redneck if your momma gives you tips on how to sneak booze into sporting events. Votes: 0
Jeff FoxworthyIt is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonFate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing. Votes: 0
Gamal Abdel NasserThe rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. Votes: 0
John Lothrop MotleyFor the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. Votes: 0
John BurnsMy life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult. Votes: 0
Florence HendersonJust as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff. Votes: 0
Mandy MooreIt's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do. Votes: 0
Lindsey VonnEvery time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there. Votes: 0
Zac EfronShe knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodI don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life. Votes: 0
Diora BairdIt is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. Votes: 0
David HumeWhen I dress up for events, I prefer Marc Jacobs and Dior. But I dream about wearing Chanel one day. Votes: 0
Lucy HaleSo I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenWe are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years. Votes: 0
Yamaga SokoMaybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events. Votes: 0
Kapil Dev...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us. Votes: 0
Holly SmaleI'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it. Votes: 3 Tom Shadyac
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events. Votes: 4 Bernadine Dohrn
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. Votes: 3 Arthur Conan Doyle
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff. Votes: 3 Jasmine Guinness
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America. Votes: 3 Ira Sachs
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. Votes: 3 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. Votes: 4 Jefferson Davis
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. Votes: 1 Bill Gates
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Votes: 1 Tony Robbins
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion. Votes: 2 Michael Morpurgo
I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events. Votes: 4 Caterina Murino
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that. Votes: 4 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. Votes: 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. Votes: 4 Raymond Queneau
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. Votes: 4 Ha-Joon Chang
If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before. Votes: 3 Ray Dalio
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance. Votes: 1 Natalia Makarova
Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. Votes: 4 Greg Kinnear
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Votes: 1 Napoleon Bonaparte
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. Votes: 3 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
...recent events should make the student wary of state rights banners, especially when raised by conservative men against national administrations not conspicuously devoted to the interests of the propertied. Votes: 3 Charles G. Sellers
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. Votes: 3 Sergio Aragones
I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind. Votes: 6 Daniel Handler
The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives. Votes: 5 Hoda Kotb
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. Votes: 3 Sara Zarr
I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around. Votes: 4 John Key
Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. Votes: 3 Twyla Tharp
Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event. Votes: 8 Drew Carey
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. Votes: 1 Cleopatra
Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness. Votes: 1 Lynsey Addario
My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense. Votes: 3 Alexander Koch
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share. Votes: 1 Trip Hawkins
You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life. Votes: 1 Bob Cousy
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. Votes: 3 Cleopatra
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. Votes: 1 John Lothrop Motley
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with Votes: 4 Charlotte Rampling
I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society. Votes: 4 Sasha Azevedo
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life. Votes: 4 Colleen Hoover
I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind. Votes: 6 Daniel Handler
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. Votes: 1 Richard Price
An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen. Votes: 3 Per Bak