Events Quotes - Page 33

• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Work, Simple, Years

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• This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Identity

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

  Tony Blair

  Roots, Reform, Use

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• The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Fields, Behavior

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• You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

  Michael Beckwith

  Life, Way, Cosmic

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• The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

  Queen Victoria

  Powerful, Voice, Touching

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• The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Age, Fiction

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.185

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• Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

  Fernand Braudel

  Reason, Social, Form

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• There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

  William McIlvanney

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  1985 The BigMan, ch.1.

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• What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

  Dorothee Solle

  Waiting, Important, Possibility

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

  Christopher Darden

  Real, Justice, Cases

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• This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

  Maria Sharapova

  Player, Prize Money, Decision

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• You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

  David Stern

  Moving, Eye, Opportunity

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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• There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Wisdom, History, Equal

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and giving the fans something to cheer.

  Colin McRae

  Cheer, Home, Giving

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• More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Children, Real, Serious

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• I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Comfort, Holes, States

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• It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.

  Sandy Smith

  Strong, Communication, Community

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• As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother

  John Sentamu

  Brother, Reality, Television

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• History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

  Nancy Pickard

  Lying, History, Study

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• It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

  Anya Seton

  Importance, Foresight, Knows

  Anya Seton (2016). “The Turquoise”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Perfect, Aging

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• Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Hair

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• I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine

  John James Audubon

  Thinking, Helping, Curious

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