Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Apfel

I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.

Home Depot, as part of its DNA, really responds to catastrophic events that take place.

Paul Ricoeur

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it

Lee Westwood

The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.

R. C. Sproul

God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

John Ashbery

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

Kazuo Ishiguro

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

Margaret Atwood

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Marcus Thomas

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Certain signs precede certain events.

Paul Schrader

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

P. G. Wodehouse

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

Oswald Chambers

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

Michael O'Donoghue

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.

Keith Waterhouse

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

The long-term vision is to work with trade show organizers to transform their shows from one-week events into 365-day exhibitions.

Novalis

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

Emile M. Cioran

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Epictetus

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Epictetus

Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.

All these events happened many, many years ago, and he is not the same person today. He has renounced these activities.

All the (major sports) events have some presenting sponsors.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Henry Ford

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Norman Mailer

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Mason Cooley

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.