Events Quotes

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

  

  Andrew Michael Ramsay
  • Time
  • Events
  • Minutes

• Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

  

  Sanya Richards-Ross
  • People
  • Paper
  • Competing

• Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Energy
  • Fire
  • Stealing

• I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.

  

  Autumn de Wilde
  • Events
  • Hurts
  • Better Life

• "Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

  

  Barry Malzberg
  • Universe
  • Understanding
  • motivation

• The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Events
  • Influences
  • Commonplace

• You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Environment
  • Events

• Natural events have completely destroyed this planet on numerous occasions in the past, and just like them we are a natural event destroying this planet.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Events
  • Planet

• It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Life
  • Character
  • Define

• Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

  

  Petrarch
  • Believe
  • Light
  • Events

• In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe.

  

  Stieg Larsson
  • Society
  • Events
  • Interact

• One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Feelings
  • Facts
  • Events

• In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

  

  Andrew Lam
  • True
  • Events
  • Stay

• Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.

  

  Wright Thompson
  • Events
  • Urban
  • Handball

• I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

  

  Richard Land
  • Mind
  • Judgment
  • Particular

• Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Events
  • Principles
  • Lead

• Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

  

  Michel Faber
  • Events
  • Newspapers
  • Meaningless

• The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

  

  Elmer Kelton
  • Courage
  • Inspired
  • Farmers

• Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Positive
  • Worry
  • Planning

• Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Different
  • Cities
  • Japan

• I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

  

  Evo Morales
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Newspapers

• Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.

  

  Evangelos Venizelos
  • Europe
  • Governments
  • Greece

• We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

  

  Will Durant
  • Events
  • Americans
  • Centuries

• Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Laws

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