Events Quotes · Page 75

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events,…

— William Godwin

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause…

— Anonymous

Zindagi zeuna ko lagi ho mretu ko lagi hoina

— Pradhumna Shrestha

Keep your eye on the main event.

— Martha Griffiths

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be…

— Sandi Toksvig

I'v planted my seeds for my upcoming events. but right now, Im just waiting for them to bloom

— 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

A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and…

— Bruce Catton

We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the…

— Philip Toshio Sudo

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the…

— Cary Fowler

Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he…

— Kenneth Franklin

I don't care who wins because I go to sporting events to scream. It's the one place on the planet you can…

— Lewis Black

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that…

— Frederick Wiseman

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens…

— Andrew Schneider

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.…

— Milan Kundera

People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within…

— Nick Thune

In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our…

— Piero Ferrucci

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

Being psychic does not necessarily mean seeing an event that has not yet occurred. It is rather seeing the inner nature of…

— Frederick Lenz

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible…

— Edward Zwick

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House…

— Hillary Clinton

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be…

— Eckhart Tolle

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want…

— Nick Hornby

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much…

— Gregory Crewdson

People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size…

— Mick Cornett

The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures,…

— Gary Neville

There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

— Roberto Rossellini

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

— Walter Mercado

I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after…

— Robert Klein

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

— Vaclav Klaus

I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe…

— Maria V. Snyder

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams…

— Anne Tyler

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come…

— Eliza Dushku

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration…

— Henry David Thoreau