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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. -- Karen Armstrong
The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music. -- Doug Flutie
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
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
When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too. -- Roger Federer
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
The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917. -- Kelly Miller
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players. -- Ernie Harwell
It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies. -- Ahmed Chalabi
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event. -- Max Lucado
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. -- John Burns
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! -- Thomas B. Macaulay
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. -- Matthew Simpson
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
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
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed. -- Joseph Fort Newton
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't be done. I believe that's why sexual love, which needn't be, is so intensely intertwined with sin. -- Mark Helprin
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
The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural. -- Queen Victoria
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
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
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence. -- Queen Elizabeth II
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
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
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed! -- Robert Browning
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place. -- Otto Schily
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
People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time. -- Meher Baba
Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km. -- Tom Kristensen
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity. -- Joely Fisher
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance. -- Martin Jacques
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. -- John Drinkwater
As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover. -- Luke Goss
I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel. -- Michael Bay
What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination. -- Bela Karolyi
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport. -- Serge Schmemann
Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses. -- Jodi Benson
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
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. -- Lee Westwood
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. -- Robert Kennedy
One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been. -- Matthew McConaughey
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not -- Maurice Maeterlinck
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it. -- Elbert Hubbard
It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things. -- Tom Kite
If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event. -- Roberto Esposito
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter. -- Nathaniel Smith
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. -- Russell Sherman
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
I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance. -- Keith Thurman
To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it. -- Lance Armstrong
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds. -- Christopher Hitchens

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