The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
~By Sidney Altman ~
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
~By Dana Snyder ~
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
~By George Santayana ~
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
~By Julius Caesar ~
I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
~By Harry Hamlin ~
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
~By Bill Wyman ~
The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
~By Jon Stewart ~
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 ~
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
~By Jefferson Davis ~
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
~By Will Ferrell ~
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
~By Enya ~
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 ~
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 ~
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
~By Pat Summerall ~
I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
~By Hans Frank ~
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
~By William Greider ~
You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
~By John Berger ~
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 ~
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.
~By Robert Fortune ~
The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.
~By Dick Morris ~
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 ~
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
~By Matt Damon ~
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 ~
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
~By Cotton Mather ~
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
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 ~
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
~By Doug Coupland ~
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
~By Cleopatra ~
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
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 ~
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
~By Ethel Waters ~
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
~By David Blunkett ~
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
~By Richard Bach ~
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
~By Will Durant ~
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
~By David Blunkett ~
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
~By Peter Agre ~
And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
~By Jane Roberts ~
The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
~By Heidi Klum ~
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
~By Catherine McCormack ~
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
~By Claude Bernard ~
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
~By Andre Breton ~
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
~By Edward Zwick ~
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 ~
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
~By Eudora Welty ~
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 ~
It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.
~By Jaime Hernandez ~
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
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 ~
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
~By David Crane ~
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
~By Richard Curtis ~
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
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 ~
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
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 ~
The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
~By Hans Frank ~
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
~By Esther Williams ~
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
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 ~
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
~By Christopher Darden ~
I don't think events in your life affect your music.
~By Gordon Getty ~
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
~By Harry Reasoner ~
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
~By Dan Rather ~
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
~By Richard Burton ~
I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.
~By James McAvoy ~
You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!
~By Arthur Cohn ~
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
~By William James ~
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
~By Robert Smithson ~
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 ~
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 ~
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
~By Omar Bongo ~
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