Top 1200 Big Events Quotes & Sayings

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

It's extremely easy to get people to share what events they are going to because events are inherently social.

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

People tend to be consumed by sport when the big events come up.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.

In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

We all get so excited about the big events, but when there's an animal involved, it's ten times harder.

News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both the event and the responses at the same time - how is President Barack Obama or Congress responding to the events? I think this reflects a deep need we have to feel that things are under control and that events are subject to our influence.

I think of events like the Challenger and 9/11 - events that move us so much that we never quite get over them. So it's important to go back and relive those feelings in order to remember how important those events were to us.

I have the confidence knowing if the game is on I can win the big events. That's a massive difference. Until you've done it and proven it to yourself, you can't know if you can.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie [The Big Short ].

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

After being at Vogue' for two years in PR, I decided to bring all events in-house. That's how I became the director of events.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

I am not a big makeup buff usually, but for photo shoots and big events you do what you have to do.

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it's fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and what I've tried to do since we built this stadium is have the great sport events.

Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them.

There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

The majors and big events eventually bring the best players to the top so if I play well or not I always find playing the big events very motivating because it shows you where the game is at.

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.