Famous Quotes
249 Quotations with Events.
- 121. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
- 122. Mark Twain: Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion ...
- 123. John W. Draper: Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress ...
- 124. John W. Draper: Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress ...
- 125. Horace Walpole: Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys on ...
- 126. Horace Walpole: Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys on ...
- 127. Victor Hugo: One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some ...
- 128. Georg C. Lichtenberg: One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gli ...
- 129. Salman Rushdie: One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becom ...
- 130. Marilyn French: One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape. ...
- 131. Martha Gellhorn: People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat) ...
- 132. Samuel Johnson: Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces ...
- 133. Karl Kraus: Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the m ...
- 134. Anatole France: That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain even ...
- 135. Marcus T. Cicero: The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
- 136. Patrick Donovan: The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row m ...
- 137. Patrick Donovan: The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row m ...
- 138. Charles Caleb Colton: The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitud ...
- 139. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: The desire to appear clever often prevents our being so.
- 140. John Kenneth Galbraith: The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.