Events Quotes
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Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
William James
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Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. A cynical but perhaps fair assessment
Mike Ferguson
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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
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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.
Will Self
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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
Jonathan Swift
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
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First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe at all events when viva voce worse than useless.
Lewis Carroll
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To me I treat each of my events as something to enjoy.
Sun Yang
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I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.
Erik Griffin
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Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.
Carolina Kluft
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
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Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after
Casey Hudson
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The showstopper! The icon! The main event!
Shawn Michaels
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High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.
Anthony Robbins
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Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
Chris Prentiss
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Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.
Georges Couthon
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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.
Ernst Mayr
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I don't believe that people die and come back as spirits, but I think there might be some unexplained events.
Nick Robinson
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
Jimmy Carter
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Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.
Dave Ulrich
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
Raymond Queneau
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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
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Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
Henry Knox