Events Quotes

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Places remember events.

I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

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

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

Events tend to recur in cycles.

Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event.

When I get ready for an event, I always look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I look like a transvestite,' I love it.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.