Top 1200 Historical Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.
It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.
There's nothing like going to real live UFC events. It's unbelievable.
The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
I wanted to be a role model, and a series of events took it away from me.
The threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness.
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.
Usually, I come for film promotions or events, but I have so many fond memories of Delhi.
But dreams full oft are found of real events
The form and shadows.
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.
In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'
The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.
True strength lies in openness and working in concert with people and events.
Innocent droplets of rain make almost all events quite natural.
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.
I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.
Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.
Events bring you small joy, while #? existence brings you bliss.
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.
My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past.
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.
I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.
The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.
The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.
We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.
There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.
I was very insecure with the dresses I would have to wear to red carpet events.
