Quotes About Events

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Mussolini would be a powerful example of how the events of 1917 shaped the future—and of the unexpected product of a failed and increasingly bankrupt Wilsonism.

The constitutional Presidency—as events so apparently disparate as the Indochina War and the Watergate affair showed—has become the imperial Presidency.

History is full of surprises.

Besides, life is a succession of events that link up with each other whether one wants them to or not.

People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's only when one realises that great administrators and leaders of men have all been at any rate slightly mad that one has a true understanding of history.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Nobody cares for a debate in Congress which "comes to nothing," and no one reads long articles which have no influence on events.

You can focus on the ranking events but I do miss the Premier League because it's massive.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

I graduated from college in 2014 and started freelance writing. I'd write anything that paid, including filling local events calendars for hourly rates.

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

When it comes to the live events, you get to see great Diva matches you don't see on 'Monday Night Raw.'

Being on Raw every Monday is obviously important, but the pay-per-views are the big shows: that's where everything comes to a head, and I want to be a part of those as often as possible.

Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.