Top 1200 World Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

The threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness.

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

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

I don't drink anymore, I don't go up the town and I'm not interested in events and parties.

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

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

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.

Usually, I come for film promotions or events, but I have so many fond memories of Delhi.

True strength lies in openness and working in concert with people and events.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

I was very insecure with the dresses I would have to wear to red carpet events.

What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?

The body of the woman is the overwhelming triumph of flesh. The woman is a concrete universal; she is a world, not an externalized world, but under the world, the warm interiority of the world, a compressed internalized world.

I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they're in soccer and choral events.

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies.

Ivanka would never stop trying to muscle in on Melania's events.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

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

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

I wanted to be a role model, and a series of events took it away from me.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

You can focus on the ranking events but I do miss the Premier League because it's massive.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows.

There's nothing like going to real live UFC events. It's unbelievable.

Innocent droplets of rain make almost all events quite natural.

I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was 'Apollo 13.'