Events Quotes · Page 85

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

— Phil Klay

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the…

— Edward Gibbon

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

— Wade Boggs

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on…

— Tom Brokaw

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

— David Horowitz

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

— Anonymous

People tell me about my record in ICC events, but frankly speaking, the intent has always been the same.

— Shikhar Dhawan

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and…

— Don DeLillo

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some…

— Anonymous

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only…

— Jack Nicklaus

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The…

— Vernon Howard

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The interpretive mechanism of the left celebral hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking…

— Michael Gazzaniga

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep…

— Thomas Merton

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about…

— Steven Pinker

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so…

— Virginia Woolf

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the…

— Robert M. Pirsig

...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally…

— Ernest Jones

The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a…

— Shelby Foote

Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even…

— Terry Pratchett

For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first,…

— Doreen Massey

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a…

— Elinor Glyn

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

— Marco Pierre White

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

— Fiona Barton

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you…

— Jeet Banerjee

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by…

— Joseph Bruchac

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

— Konrad Lorenz

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

— Georges Lefebvre

Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

— Bret Stephens

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the…

— Voltaire

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people…

— Karl Popper

Whenever I travelled abroad for shoots or live events, people showered me with immense love.

— Hina Khan

Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of…

— Milkha Singh

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to…

— Euripides

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

— David Halberstam

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on…

— Uta Hagen

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

— Eckhart Tolle

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature…

— James Mangold