Top 1200 Important Events Quotes & Sayings

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

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

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.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

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

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

As one of the most important global events for our industry, I look forward to Computex each year.

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.

Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

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.

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.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

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.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

Events are less important than our responses to them.

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.

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

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

On a personal level, I think dressing is such a form of expression, and when you do events, it's important to feel as though you are authentically yourself.

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

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

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

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

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

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.

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

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.

Westlemania is the Superbowl but each PPV is equally important. The big four (WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series) are always important to me but the themed events have been getting better each year. Each event has its own aura around it so it's very difficult to choose.

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

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.

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.

We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

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