Events Quotes · Page 31

“Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives to them.”

— Epictetus

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

— Cleopatra

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

— Michael Mullen

There's nothing like going to real live UFC events. It's unbelievable.

— Frankie Edgar

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

— Laura Lippman

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

— Marie Curie

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a law, that every event depends on the same law.

— John Stuart Mill

But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.

— Liu Jingmin

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a…

— Haile Selassie

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can…

— Thomas Jefferson

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

— Ahmed Chalabi

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One…

— Arthur Miller

In all the events of life, you must recognize the Divine will. Adore and bless it, especially in the things which are…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

— Alice Meynell

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event…

— Robert Grudin

[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and…

— Edward Gibbon

Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise…

— Max Weber

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but…

— Peter Higgs

Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in…

— James E. Faust

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the…

— Steven Van Zandt

All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every…

— Rohit Sharma

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance…

— Andre Breton

We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising…

— Dan Pallotta

'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more…

— Anonymous

We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is…

— Edward F Edinger

Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it.…

— Markus Zusak

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth…

— Anonymous

The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times…

— Amelia Warren Tyagi

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a…

— George Kubler

It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range…

— Alain de Botton

The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of…

— Arielle Ford

I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.

— Iris Apfel

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

— Andrew Lam

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

— Barbara Tuchman

I missed a lot of time with my kids and events with my family.

— Arn Anderson

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

— Gautam Adani

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

— Arthur Eddington

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

— James Gunn

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

— Klemens von Metternich