There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. ~By Matthew Ashford ~
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. ~By Harry Oppenheimer ~
In real life, events seem much less dramatic. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. ~By Albert Einstein ~
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. ~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ~By Paul Tsongas ~
The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time. ~By Dana Snyder ~
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ~By Queen Victoria ~
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. ~By Robert Smithson ~
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ~By George Santayana ~
I have always been honest about my recollection of events. ~By David Blunkett ~
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. ~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before. ~By Jane D. Hull ~
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. ~By Clayton Christensen ~
I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake. ~By Collin C. Peterson ~
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. ~By Charlotte Mary Yonge ~
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. ~By Ginny B. Waite ~
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. ~By Og Mandino ~
I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone. ~By Amanda Seyfried ~
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. ~By Mason Cooley ~
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. ~By Edward Gibbon ~
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring. ~By Neil Tennant ~
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ~By Alfred de Vigny ~
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. ~By Tony Robbins ~
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened. ~By Madeleine Stowe ~
Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them. ~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD. ~By Joe Rogan ~
The severity of the laws prevents their execution. ~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Headlines twice the size of the events. ~By John Galsworthy ~
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable. ~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ~By Lewis Thomas ~
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ~By Marc Bloch ~
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. ~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. ~By Richard Cobden ~
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events. ~By David Brin ~
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. ~By Walter Lord ~
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. ~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight. ~By Janet Suzman ~
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. ~By Plato ~
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. ~By Teresa de Lauretis ~
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. ~By Walther Bothe ~
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ~By Andre Gide ~
I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up. ~By Kato Kaelin ~
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. ~By Agnes Smedley ~
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. ~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents. ~By Vaclav Klaus ~
The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events. ~By Hans Frank ~
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. ~By Tim Holden ~
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century. ~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents. ~By Edward Hoagland ~
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. ~By Barbara Olson ~
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve. ~By Charles Francis Richter ~
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. ~By Otto von Bismarck ~
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again. ~By David Blunkett ~
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. ~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it. ~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. ~By Catherine McCormack ~
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you. ~By Norman Reilly Raine ~
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. ~By Robert Kennedy ~
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ~By Thomas Merton ~
It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time. ~By Kathleen Parker ~
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health. ~By Lois Capps ~
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~By Jean Cocteau ~
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know. ~By Bruce Jackson ~
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. ~By Sri Chinmoy ~
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can. ~By James D'arcy ~
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ~By Matthew Simpson ~
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. ~By Horatio Nelson ~
A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household. ~By Anthea Turner ~
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist. ~By Elliott Erwitt ~
Events tend to recur in cycles. ~By W. Clement Stone ~
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. ~By Enya ~
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. ~By Harold Brodkey ~
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events. ~By John Berger ~
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? ~By John Burns ~
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world. ~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. ~By Thomas Menino ~
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. ~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. ~By Andre Maurois ~
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ~By Anne Tyler ~
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. ~By Henry Flynt ~
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ~By Denis Diderot ~
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. ~By Jacques Delors ~
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. ~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. ~By Ken Follett ~
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. ~By Harry Browne ~
Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes. ~By Craig McCracken ~
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike. ~By David Mallet ~
The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. ~By Eleanor Farjeon ~
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past. ~By Matthew Simpson ~
I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript. ~By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ~
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events. ~By Cat Stevens ~
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. ~By John Perry Barlow ~
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us. ~By Jane Roberts ~
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