Events Quotes · Page 31

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

— Herman Melville

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

— Richard Cobden

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

— Austin Scarlett

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

— Epicharmus of Kos

I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

— Natalie Gulbis

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

— Laozi

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

— Naguib Mahfouz

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...…

— Nina Bawden

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

— Kylie Bax

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's…

— Patricia Montandon

The concert industry lags dramatically behind the great hospitality businesses out there, whether they're theme parks or hotels or sporting events.

— Michael Rapino

I spend time with a special someone in my life. That's all I need; I don't need events. I don't do a…

— Sean Hayes

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a…

— Werner Herzog

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

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

— Andy Andrews

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all…

— Robin Hobb

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time,…

— Lucy Powell

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone…

— Naomi Scott

I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting…

— Jill Douglas

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller…

— Barbara Hershey

Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different…

— Kohei Uchimura

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development…

— Maria Montessori

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.…

— Marcus Aurelius

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of…

— David Byrne

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead…

— Neil Abramson

When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses…

— Zhuangzi

The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by…

— Anonymous

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants…

— Andy Roddick

The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to…

— James Redfield

I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

— Anonymous

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

— Enya

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.

— Steve Goodman

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

— Albert Einstein

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

— William Cowper

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

— Shaun White

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

— John Berger