Top 1200 Great Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the background.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

When events like the Sony Hack or the news of the Russian hack of our election, we're not shocked by such events, but they are troubling.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language. For narrated events always happen somewhere. And for an oral culture, that location is never merely incidental to those occurrences. The events belong, as it were, to the place, and to tell the story of those events is to let the place itself speak through the telling.

Whenever WWE is in town, it's a great time, but Live Events are special. If you've never been to one, I highly recommend it.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Any of my previous fights before the UFC and 'the Ultimate Fighter' were all main events and co-main events.

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.

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed and apartheid in South Africa collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down. I don't know anyone who foresaw those events. It seems to me that as a species we are constantly trying to adapt ourselves to the unexpected. In the meantime, we talk as if we are in control, and we're not. This seems to me to be the truth about the twentieth century.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.

The Red Cross Gala is unique. There's great history there. It's the highlight of the summer in terms of social and charity events.

In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.

The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.

The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

The concert industry lags dramatically behind the great hospitality businesses out there, whether they're theme parks or hotels or sporting events.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.

A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music.

It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can`t control. These are things that seemingly alter our lives forever or become barriers for living a life of fulfillment. It`s important to remember that the ultimate experience of life is not to be controlled by events. We all have difficult events in our lives - the loss of family members, economics, stress, litigation, government interference in our businesses, health challenges. Remember that it is not the events that shape our lives, but, rather, the meaning we attach to them.

It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.

You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.