Events Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Download Open image “It is not an event; it is a piece of news.” — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Inspirational News Pieces
I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“An “event” is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us… — Mark T. Conard Copy Share Image
A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I name ‘event’, a rupture in the normal disposition of bodies and normal ways of a particular situation. Or if you want, I name ‘event’ a rupture of the laws of the situation. So, in its very importance, an event is not the realization/variation of a possibility that resides inside the situation. An event is the creation of a new… — Badiou Copy Share
“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
