Great Events Quotes

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  You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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  I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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• The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Heaven, Self Reliance

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.

  Steven Brust

  Suffering, Events, Needs

  "The Paths of the Dead". Book by Steven Brust, 2003.

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• The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Retirement, Theatre, Firsts

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.222

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• Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.

  Georges Couthon

  Events, Revolution, Prepared

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• We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Rights

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• We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

  Otto Schily

  Athlete, Mean, Responsibility

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• Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Voice, Events, Reform

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• In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Solitude, Events, Faces

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• Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Soul, Events

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.190, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

  Andrew Michael Ramsay

  Time, Hands, Events

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• A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sleep, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1338, Delphi Classics

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• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  Marcel Proust

  Military, War, Army

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Greatness, Men, Events

  John Campbell Shairp (2011). “Robert Burns”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Historical, Secret

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.70, Penguin

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• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Fall

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Baseball, Drama, Winning

  Interview with Peter Schmuck, www.baltimoresun.com. August 23, 2010.

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• The great events of the world take place in the brain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brain, Events, World

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.16, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  Queen Victoria

  Events, Nerves, Calm

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