Quotes with event

  • We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
  • Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

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  • George Bernard Shaw A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Callum Keith Rennie Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Lee Simonson Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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  • Brad Delson 'Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
    Saint Joan (1924)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jean Baudrillard A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • William Shakespeare Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Elbert Hubbard An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Edmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Goldberg At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Michael Moore Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • George Orwell Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Events cast long shadows before.
    One such event would be a war.
    But how are shadows to be seen
    When total darkness fills the screen?
    Poems, 1913-1956 Alphabet [Alfabet] from Five Childrens Songs (1934
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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