Top 100 Great Events Quotes
#1. It is a true pleasure to live in a century in which such great events take place, provided that one can take shelter in some little corner and watch the play in comfort. (attributed to N. Poussin)
John Banville
#2. The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
Jonathan Swift
#3. We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
Matthew Simpson
#4. Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life might turn on the next few moments if he could find the right words, and make himself say them.
Joe Abercrombie
#5. By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.
John Adams
#6. For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
Orson Scott Card
#7. The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.
Stefan Zweig
#8. In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
Charles De Gaulle
#9. There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
Jean De La Bruyere
#12. It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.
Patricia Moyes
#13. great events have incalculable results.
Victor Hugo
#14. Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.
William Whewell
#15. The humble histories of hearts cannot be brushed aside forever by the great events of nations.
Milan Kundera
#16. This demonstrates the novel truth - that great events have incalculable consequences.
Victor Hugo
#17. Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.
Georges Couthon
#18. I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#19. Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
#20. The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
Samuel Johnson
#21. I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
Paul Keating
#22. America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.
Ezra Taft Benson
#23. John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes.
Tom Standage
#24. Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.
Giordano Bruno
#25. It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
Ahmed Chalabi
#26. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
Oscar Wilde
#27. Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#29. The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
Frank Herbert
#30. The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .
John Maynard Keynes
#31. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#32. The power of love is not properly gauged if it is estimated only by the object that inspires it, if the tension preceding it is not taken into account - that gloomy space of disillusionment and loneliness which stretches in front of all the great events of the heart.
Stefan Zweig
#33. The great events of the world take place in the brain ...
Oscar Wilde
#34. But legends are part of great events, and if they help keep alive the memory of gallant self-sacrifice, they serve their purpose.
Walter Lord
#35. In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#36. Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.
Gustav Stresemann
#37. The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
Alan Cranston
#38. For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
John Burns
#39. The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#40. I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
Ernie Harwell
#41. Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history.
Erik Larson
#42. Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#43. I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.
Isadora Duncan
#44. Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
Mercy Otis Warren
#45. Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves
Victoria Magazine
#46. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#47. I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
Phil Klay
#48. Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.
John Campbell Shairp
#49. This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon
Maria Sharapova
#50. The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.
Keegan Bradley
#51. Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
L. W Rogers
#52. Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.
Tom Daley
#53. Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
Gavyn Davies
#54. A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
Henry Kissinger
#55. I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.
Bo Jackson
#56. For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what Christ is doing than on what the antichrist is doing.
Rick Joyner
#57. Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
Horatio Nelson
#58. The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Arthur Erickson
#59. Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.
S.L. Northey
#60. Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.
Carmine Gallo
#61. Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
Albert Bandura
#62. We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.
George R R Martin
#63. No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
Elbert Hubbard
#64. The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
James Buchan
#65. The influence upon our intelligence of events that happened in the womb is three times as great as anything our parents did to us after our birth.
Matt Ridley
#66. I like being done up! I love going to events and wearing fabulous gowns. I like hitting that spot of doing what feels good for me. If it makes other people happy, great; if it doesn't, then that's great, too!
Soledad O'Brien
#67. What's something every teen should know?
MEANING OF LIFE ENACT,PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO FACE LIFE EVENTS STORED IN FOR SELF,DO ASSIST OTHERS,RESPECT AND GUARD PARENTS AT OLD AGE AND TAKE THEIR BLESSINGS DAILY FOR FUTURE LIFE GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Various
#68. The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#69. Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.
Hubert Butler
#70. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
Karl Popper
#71. The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.
Denny Hamlin
#72. Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
Marcus Aurelius
#73. Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
Eleanor Roosevelt
#74. I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.
Billy Connolly
#75. Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.
M. Russell Ballard
#76. Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.
Nelson Piquet
#77. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
Kurt Vonnegut
#78. It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.
Wallace Stegner
#79. Great horror stories of books and movies have seemingly come from some aspect of real-life events, and human behavior. This is evident as far back as Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho. The movie was based on a serial killer named, Ed Gein in Wisconsin.
Chris Mentillo
#80. Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#81. For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
Alice Walker
#82. I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
Carol Berg
#83. Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.
Jenny Meadows
#84. The Lord trieth the righteous. - Psalm 11:5 ALL events are under the control of Providence; consequently all the trials of our outward life are traceable at once to the great First Cause.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#85. There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway,
#86. We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.
Brandon Lee
#87. Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.
Lyn Nofziger
#88. That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.
John Dos Passos
#89. David Gascoyne once told me that the only point of keeping a journal was to concentrate of the personal, the diurnal minutiae, and forget the great significant events in the world at large.
William Boyd
#90. There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others.
That's not what leadership is any more.
Phil Dourado
#91. St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.
Josemaria Escriva
#92. To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.
K.W. Jeter
#93. Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness
Walter Benjamin
#94. Events are influenced by our very great desires.
William James
#95. Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Livy
#96. The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.
Grover Furr
#97. Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
Ben Bernanke
#98. Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
Thomas Carlyle
#99. I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.
Tom Dunne
#100. You keep distracting from the main point, Vaida. I did not come to Harare to study other people's scars. I have my own to worry about. They make me sick. I will never recover from the events that carved them into my body. You should focus on healing yours instead of creating new ones.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
