Casual Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Casual Events Frivolous Individual Motive World World events
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. — Edith Wharton 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
It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous. — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised.… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting? — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a bit of… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love watches. I have a Hublot, a Breitling, and a Cartier. Different accessories that I match together just to be comfortable and casual. — Chandler Parsons Copy Share Image
Every office interprets business casual differently. Feel out your office! — Sarah Lafleur Copy Share Image
I spend the majority of my time in the office and I usually wear a casual bandage dress and flip-flops or slippers. — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become… — Donald L. Staheli Copy Share Image
Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place on this… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
