Events Quotes - Page 6

• The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

  Tim Holden

  Attitude, Holocaust, Erode

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• We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

  Tony Blair

  Iraq, Promise, Remove

  Tony Blair's Open Letter to Iraq, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2003.

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• When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self... Prisoners in the world of object, they have no choice but to submit to the demands of matter! They are pressed down and crushed by external forces: fashion, the market, events, public opinion. Never in a whole lifetime do they recover their right mind!... What a pity!

  Zhuangzi

  Fashion, Self, Choices

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• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  Vince McMahon

  Listening, Pulse, Reason

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• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• To be honest with you, I literally don't even know how to style my hair unless I'm doing an event because I rely on hair stylists.

  Nina Dobrev

  Hair, Style, Stylist

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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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• Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...

  James Dwight Dana

  Beautiful, Nature, Memories

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

  Andy Samberg

  Past, Night, Parent

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• The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

  Enya

  Red, Appearance, Carpet

  "Everyone Thinks I'm So Shockable". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 24, 2005.

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• They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader.

  Dave Hunt

  Loyalty, Religious, Leader

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• Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

  Sharon Salzberg

  Usual, Gaps, Mental Health

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• Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

  John Drinkwater

  Greatness, Men, Poetry

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Ernst Zundel

  Country, Running, War

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• There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

  Shannon Miller

  Years, Games, Television

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• Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.

  William Whewell

  Art, Science, Discovery

  William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22

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• Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Way

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Heart

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Past, Testimony

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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