Great Events Quotes - Page 2

• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction

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• One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Independent, Science, Moon

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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Eye, Perspective

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

  Stefan Zweig

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Stress

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.15, Pushkin Press

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• For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Giving, Events

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.843, Tor Science Fiction

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• Great events have sent before them their announcements.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Events, Announcements

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• The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Interesting, Novelists

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1904). “The Art of Literature (illustrated)”, p.50, Full Moon Publications

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• All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Clever, Opportunity, Men

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• The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

  Jonathan Swift

  Spring, Mean, Rivers

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.202

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• I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

  Ernie Harwell

  Player, Events, Lucky

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all the people. It has been a great event, the best you can experience as an athlete. We are very happy with how everything has worked out in the competition. Everything was very good and we're really happy we accomplished our goal.

  Margaretha Sigfridsson

  Nice, Athlete, People

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• We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

  James Hutton

  Nature, Science, Power

  James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.86

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• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Giving, Pressure

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

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• In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Writing, Character, Fate

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• The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Squares, Discovery, Justice

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• People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.

  Meher Baba

  Spring, People, Waiting

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• One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

  Nikola Tesla

  Art, Men, Training

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• There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Events

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• History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

  Max Lucado

  Circles, Events, Movement

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, True Life, Biographies

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.243

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• How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Men, Events, Young

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.69, Baen Books

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• For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

  John Burns

  Events, Way, Action

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• By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

  John Adams

  Mean, Sleep, Cutting

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.197

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• I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

  Isadora Duncan

  Ocean, Taken, Sea

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