Events Quotes · Page 22

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

— Elizabeth Olsen

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

— James A. Michener

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

— Anonymous

The world is filled with great sporting events.

— Alex Berenson

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

— Bruce Lee

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

— Primo Levi

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

— Andy Andrews

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although…

— Carl Lewis

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I…

— Joseph Beuys

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such…

— Carl Jung

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”

— Benoît B. Mandelbrot

The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

— Jesse Jackson, Jr

I'm fast for my size. I'm very good at moving events - throwing, pulling trucks, Atlas stones. I win them all.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

— Dannion Brinkley

We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely…

— Jean Gebser

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of…

— Elizabeth May

The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very…

— Wolfhart Pannenberg

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special,…

— Guy Finley

My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We…

— Corbin Bernsen

The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture…

— Peter Medawar

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was…

— Ansel Elgort

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,…

— John Maynard Keynes

…all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are…

— Ken Wilber

When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any…

— Clarence Darrow

[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the…

— Marjory Stephenson

Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative,…

— Anonymous

[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives…

— Daniel Quinn

In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker…

— Ross McKitrick

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic.…

— Jean Kerr

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

— David Mallet

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

— Amy Tan

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

— John Stuart Mill

True strength lies in openness and working in concert with people and events.

— Connie Nielsen

Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

— Richard Lloyd

Each one of us is a unique event in the universe.

— Juan Mascaro

Before most events, I dry-heave or throw up, because I'm so nervous. It's not enjoyable.

— Mat Fraser

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

— Robert Morgan