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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. -- Matthew Simpson
The great events of the world take place in the brain... -- Oscar Wilde
The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. -- Georges Couthon
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. -- Jonathan Swift
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. -- Frank Herbert
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them -- Oscar Wilde
It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges. -- H. Rider Haggard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is the inner life which is the real object of our interest - The task of the novelist is not to narrate great events but to make small ones interesting. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The great events in our lives are physical. Childbirth. Sex. Combat. Death. Not poetry, or music, or the thoughts of great men will flash across the transom of our minds at the moment of dying. We will remember only the moments when we felt the fibers of our body sing. Bloodily. Messily. Ecstatically." -- Natasha Mostert
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so. -- Nikola Tesla
There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ , the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity. -- Sri Aurobindo
The world is filled with great sporting events. -- Alex Berenson
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917. -- Kelly Miller
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. -- Queen Victoria
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity. -- Joely Fisher
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. -- Cate Blanchett
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. -- Arthur Erickson
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter. -- Nathaniel Smith
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
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
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
Events are influenced by our very great desires. -- William James
Great events have sent before them their announcements. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. -- Livy
Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes. -- Andrew Michael Ramsay
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be. -- Alfred de Vigny
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves -- Queen Victoria
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You hold all the potential for great synchronistic events to come together to transform your life. -- Andrea Goeglein
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness -- Walter Benjamin
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events." -- Arthur Erickson
Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships. -- M. Russell Ballard
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
There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions. -- Jim Courier
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
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
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
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
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a -- Joseph Campbell
The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. Its fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions. -- Keegan Bradley
Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment. -- Tryon Edwards
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
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
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
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

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