Event Quotes - page 2

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need. (William Faulkner)
Literature is analysis after the event. View quote
Doris Lessing
How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best! View quote
Charles James Fox
The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful. View quote
Hal Clement
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. View quote
Carroll Quigley
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. View quote
Richard Nixon
I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own. View quote
Roger Moore
[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often. (Uta Hagen)
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment. View quote
Donald Evans
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion. View quote
Fiona Shaw
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place. View quote
Otto Schily
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music. View quote
Peabo Bryson
The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved. View quote
Sergei Bubka
If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself. View quote
James Agate
David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event. (Howard Zinn)
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming. View quote
Alain de Botton
Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event. View quote
William Lane Craig
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice. View quote
Thomas Paine
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson