Events Quotes - Page 26

• An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Powerful, Commitment, Order

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• It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

  Janet Reno

  Gun, Criminals, Matter

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• 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

  Player, Prize Money, Decision

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• You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

  David Stern

  Moving, Eye, Opportunity

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

  David Stern

  Decision, Pushing Forward, Moments

  "Q&A With David Stern: Part 1". Interview with Jason Friedman, www.nba.com. December 18, 2012.

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• There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Wisdom, History, Equal

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

  John Brodie

  Past, Player, Effectiveness

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• On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

  Polybius

  Causes, Should, Resorts

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• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Reflection, September 11

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• It's a lot of fun coming out for a practice round and having the crowd behind you and cheering you on (a few) days before the event.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Cheer, Fun, Practice

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• Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and giving the fans something to cheer.

  Colin McRae

  Cheer, Home, Giving

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• More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Children, Real, Serious

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• The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

  Frank Griswold

  Maturity, Past, Order

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• I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Comfort, Holes, States

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• It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community.

  Sandy Smith

  Strong, Communication, Community

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• The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.

  Luke Donald

  Golf, Play, Guy

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• We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It's the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It's definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It's a great opportunity to have such an event.

  Susan Ward

  Opportunity, Important, Skating

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• As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother

  John Sentamu

  Brother, Reality, Television

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• History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

  Nancy Pickard

  Lying, History, Study

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• It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

  John Key

  Stupid, Impossible Things, Leader

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• It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

  Anya Seton

  Importance, Foresight, Knows

  Anya Seton (2016). “The Turquoise”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Perfect, Aging

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• I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

  Richard Schmid

  People, World, Painting

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• Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Military, Pride, America

  "A War Tat is Finished". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

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• In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

  Julius Caesar

  Military, War, Causes

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