Top 1200 Sporting Event Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Of course I wanted to main-event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went back to New Japan.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

I like to come home after an event and show my daughter what I was wearing, because I know she really appreciates it.

They used to say a woman would never main-event a pay-per-view. I'm pretty sure I heard that from my dad.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there for every major event.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

At an Antifa event meant to resist 'fascist violence,' I - a gay journalist of color - was beaten so badly that I was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage.

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

I take my role of being an aunt seriously and have attended every important event/milestone in all my nieces' and nephews' lives.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

Well, if you count my phone as an access point (which I do), I'm pretty much constantly online unless I'm at an event or practice or something.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on their glasses, and it's just fun.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

In that - and that is my personal view - Singapore delivers the most value, as they think about Formula One as a complete entertainment event, on and off track.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Even if you're not in the main event, you try to steal the show, because you can't stop talent, and for my family, they're continuing to do that, and I'm proud to say that.

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

On the red carpet, I can be different women with every event and change my style and that's funny because at the end of the day, that's my work as an actress.

Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

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

Be it a movie premiere or an event, I personally prefer to wear a lot of saree. For me, they are very comfortable; I can carry them off.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

It's a lot of fun coming out for a practice round and having the crowd behind you and cheering you on (a few) days before the event.

When I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event, and he happened to be there.