Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
Great events have sent before them their announcements. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players. — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances;… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. — Georges Couthon Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
