Event Quotes

1358 Event quotes by 1100 unique authors

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous… — J. B. Priestley
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. — Bliss Carman
An emotion is both a mental and a physical event. — Nathaniel Branden
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event. — Georges Braque
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on… — David Hume
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. — Jean Baudrillard
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not… — George Bernard Shaw
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important… — Peter Drucker
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is… — Bruce Schneier
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… — Samuel Johnson
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind,… — Vernon Howard
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the… — James Clerk Maxwell
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell

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