Events Quotes - Page 17

• Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gone, World, Eternity

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• The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

  Saul Bellow

  Two, Special, Firsts

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• I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Real, Mean

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• I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

  Robert Klein

  Monday, Hangover, Order

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• Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;... We are telling of what the prophets have said-of what the Lord has said to Joseph. Wake up now, wake up, O Israel, and lay up your grain and your stores. I tell you that there is trouble coming upon the world.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Israel, Evil, Wake Up

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• Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Long, Age

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

  Sam Shoemaker

  Ancient, Christianity, Currents

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• Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

  Haim Ginott

  Personality, Parent, Conflict

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• Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

  Euripides

  Men, Permission, Happens

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• Consult duty not events.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Advice, Duty

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• What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

  Sophocles

  Future, Men, Waiting

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Commitment, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

  Karl Kraus

  Morning, Up Early, Stupidity

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• I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

  Fred Couples

  Senior, Nice, Winning

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• In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, America, May

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

  Hannah Arendt

  Ideas, Distinguished, Unprecedented

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• There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

  Tony Blair

  New York, People, Way

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• Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Movie, Real, Mind

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, East Germany, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

  Robert Holden

  Attitude, Keys, Differences

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.5, Hay House, Inc

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• No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Spiritual, Spirit, Great Spiritual

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

  Charles Darwin

  Uncles, Science, Offering

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.113, NYU Press

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• I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Book, Taken

  "What the 2012 Prophecy Is Really About" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

  Ellen Barkin

  House, Littles, Homebodies

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• I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.

  Robert Burchfield

  Believe, English Grammar, Years

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