Events Quotes - Page 5

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, War, Past

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• No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Military, War, Misunderstood

  "No More Vietnams". Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1985.

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• At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

  Daniel Handler

  Believe, Hard Times, Journey

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• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mean, Sleep

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.404

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• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Organization, Civil War, Confession

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sarcastic, Wise, Sarcasm

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Age, Way

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• The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, - that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, - that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eye-witnesses; - by such reflections as these... I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Men, Reflection

  Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley (1983). “Autobiographies”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at it…The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.

  Uta Barth

  Records, World, Want

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• If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.

  Oliver Lodge

  Time, Science, Museums

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1914). “Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913”

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• We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Thinking, Importance, Feels

  Rudger Clawson, Wilford Woodruff (1993). “Waiting for World's End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff”

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• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Dressing Up, Evening, Costumes

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• When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Good Day, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Decision, Introducing, Settings

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• One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are ordered by forces that are beyond the ability of our rational mind to understand or control.

  Thom Hartmann

  Believe, Differences, Mind

  "книги▼ Моя библиотека Моя история Книги в Google Play Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision". Book by Thom Hartmann, 2009.

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Frustration, Keys

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• If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

  Mark Cuban

  Mom, Running, Brother

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• Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.

  Debi Mazar

  Home, Heart, People

  "'Extra Virgin’s' Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos on how they stay sweet". Interview with Holley Simmons, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2014.

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• Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in
  the end.

  Charlton Heston

  Fall, Play, Example

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• Stress comes from trying to achieve, trying to do something, trying to keep up with the events of the world, the speed of the world, and trying to accomplish, to produce results.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Stress, Trying, World

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Modern Journalism, Giving

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.393, University of Chicago Press

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• Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

  Marguerite Duras

  Judging, Looks, World

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Horizon, Burning

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