A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Thomas Carlyle

We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.

Ravish Kumar

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

Claire Messud

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

Tom Hanks

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

David Platt

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

Epicharmus of Kos

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

Chris Prentiss

It was my job to interest them in everything that was happening, to make the arrival of the Daily Express each morning an event, to show them the world outside Bolton and Bacup, to give them courage and confidence to overcome the drabness of their lives.

Arthur Christiansen

See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our lives. We have the unique opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of humankind, to be active participants in shaping a new world.

Jed Diamond

The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world.

Jessica Mendoza

In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

Chris Terrio

A World Cup in Brazil is the greatest event in which a footballer can play.

Mario Gomez

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.