Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Randi

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

George Galloway

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

Sheryl Crow

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Jane Blalock

The increasing popularity of team events, coupled with some of the most recognizable names in women's golf, promises to make this a world-class event. And what better forum to hold an event like this? The World Golf Village is home to the World Golf Hall of Fame, where nine members of The Legends Tour have been enshrined.

The incident coincided with a local thunderstorm but we do not know at this time whether those events were related.

Sean Whalen

The IM was first time he's swam that event this year.

Jerry Smith

You want to come into a tournament and get there, and prepare and feel prepared. For me, I got in two of the events on Wednesday. It's challenging.

You've got to be good in all events. We want them to be in fantastic shape.

And in the event a strike is not enjoined, we would not wait 48 hours; we can't survive 24 hours of a strike.

All we're saying is that this is a modifying event -- we're not talking about any end of season yet.

The girls scored in all but three events to finish in third place out of 9 teams. We had a day in which we hoped to see more improvement in times and distances.

Barack Obama

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

The ultimate goal is for people to be trained to go somewhere else, if they choose. They'll have the skills to eventually go outside of Goodwill.

This is my favorite event of the year for our city.

This is a great statement of how important the event is to the community. It's a statement of how important it is to us and how much a part of our history this tournament is.

Annika Sorenstam

This is a great event to start out the season. I got off to a great start and I'm obviously very, very happy about that.

This is a great event for a great cause, and we are excited to host this even each year.

This is a great event for a good cause.

This has gone very well -- seamlessly, ... We could hold this event every other year. We would like a rhythm to this.

A lot can happen at big events, and we have not been reaching the goals we laid out. We've just got to get it going.

Tom Boonen

Alejandro started to go for the line about 300 meters out and I just kept on his wheel and eventually managed to get past him.

Peggy Fleming

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

John Quincy Adams

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

John Gallagher, Jr.

Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

John Oliver

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

John Calvin

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

John Berger

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

John Flavel

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

Larry Niven

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

Lord Kelvin

[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.

Lupe Fiasco

You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.