Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Berger

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

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.

Eckhart Tolle

By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.

The market is going to sort of tread water until we hear the results of the (Fed) meeting and what the Fed has to say about their decision. That's the 500-pound gorilla of events next week.

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.

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.

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.

Lord Kelvin

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

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.

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.

Henry Ford

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

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Edgar Allan Poe

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Roman Polanski

As far as those events are concerned, I would not even start to justify myself.... What I did was wrong and I don't see why I should go back to this for the purposes of this trial.... I made one mistake, and I am still suffering for that.

As a person who is involved in public and political activity, I will participate in all these events this way or another,

Mick Cornett

People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'

(Drescher) did a nice job in the jumping events. She doesn't know what a good jump is yet and she's just having a good time out there.

Paul Tagliabue

(Fans outside the U.S.) want to be part of the regular season. They want to be part of other regular events like the Pro Bowl.

Predicting macroeconomic events like that is not what we try to do,

And these events generate good photos. It's all about communicating.

They substantially improved the time resolution of the observation of sprite events.

They seem to be able to handle these catastrophic events and survive,

A lot of new events that have come from the X Games, we excel in.

William Hazlitt

A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

They handpick people for those events. They don't just take anybody.