Event Quotes - page 34

They were human beings who had a life, who had a lineage, who had parents, who had children, who had lives. They were not poor or rich. They were people and these people had humanity. So it was important that someone who knew them write about the event... (Dany Laferrière)
If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment. View quote
Maria Sharapova
The American Revolution was not a common event. View quote
John Adams
I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager. View quote
Alicia Keys
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
When the life is monotonous, even grief is a welcome event. View quote
Maxim Gorky
I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them. View quote
Alan Grayson
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in. View quote
Carl Lewis
I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building. View quote
Harry Houdini
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event. View quote
Anatoly Karpov
She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others. (Ayn Rand)
And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.Alien they seemed to be; No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history,Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event,Till the Spinner of the Years Said "Now!" View quote
Thomas Hardy
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. View quote
John Crowe Ransom
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. View quote
Garry Trudeau
A distinguished writer (Siméon Denis Poisson) has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: :"The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place." :"The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favourable to that event, to the total number of cases favourable or contrary, and all equally possible" (equally like to happen). From these definitions it follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptation, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information which we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it, will vary. View quote
George Boole
In this sterile statecraft, centred on the politics of the maNDalayoni, one's neighbour was always an enemy, and the enemy of an enemy always a friend! Hindu princes, therefore, failed to hang together in the face of a common calamity. In the event, they were hanged separately. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
The case had caused considerable excitement among the "believers” (Mu'mins) and interest among the "infidels” (KAfirs) in April-May, 1985. The press in India and abroad gave many headlines to what was rightly regarded as an unprecedented event in the history of religion. It was the first time that a Pagan had questioned the character of a document hailed as the very Word of God by a People of the Book. The roles now stood reversed. So far it had been the privilege of the Peoples of the Book to ban and burn the sacred literature of the Pagans. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. View quote
Heinz Pagels
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. View quote
Yann Martel
In any event, mere speed is not a test of justice. Deliberate speed is. Deliberate speed takes time. But it is time well spent. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too. (Roger Federer)
There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican. View quote
Phil Collins
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. View quote
Susan Sontag
Sometimes a single event can be so rich in itself and its facets that it is necessary to move all around it in your search for the solution to the problems it poses - for the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson