Event Quotes

• Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Sense
  • Probable

• This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river or a beach; you have small channels, canals, towns, levees. Everything here is complicated . . . and it's not a simple environment to assess damage in.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Terms
  • Scale
  • Devastation

• If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Event
  • Federal Reserve
  • Cliff

• Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Preceding
  • Canadian Open
  • Royal Montreal Golf Club

• We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

  

  John Fiske
  • Event
  • Voyage
  • New World

• To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

  

  Joshua A. Norton
  • Desire
  • Case
  • Continuing

• Sept. 11 was the most photographed event in the world. The media has shown it over and over again. Over time, artists have digested it. I think it's very important to see filmmakers' point of view. Why not now?

  

  Jane Rosenthal
  • World
  • Photographed
  • Sept 11

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

  

  Bill Gates
  • Compete
  • Indicator
  • Company`s ability

• The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Nature
  • Event
  • Catastrophe

• I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

  

  Paula Radcliffe
  • Success
  • Event
  • Marathon

• It felt a little empty with her not here. Michelle has always been a big part of the event. I miss competing with her. It really doesn't feel like the Nationals.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Part
  • Event
  • Michelle

• It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Law
  • Depends
  • Event

• As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple.

  

  Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
  • Events
  • Mantra
  • Lip

• We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • September
  • December
  • October

• The afters is a term used in Europe for an event that takes place after a much larger event, like a wedding or concert.

  

  The Afters
  • Wedding
  • Europe
  • Event

• We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.

  

  Chris Smith
  • People
  • Safety
  • Times

• At the time, I was devastated, crushed that it didn't turn out how I wanted. But it was my first major international event, so I learned a lot from it.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Event
  • International
  • Major

• A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Miracle
  • Event
  • Signifies

• The Probability of an Event is greater or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail.

  

  Abraham de Moivre
  • Fail
  • Chances
  • Event

• Learning is a process not an event.

  

  Elliott Masie
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Event

• We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Reason
  • Event
  • Hubble

• In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

  

  Stewart Copeland The Police
  • People
  • Music
  • Film

• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

  

  Ethel Barrymore
  • Idea
  • Event

• Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

  

  Harry Johnston
  • Asia
  • Human Species
  • Earth's history

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