#event

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#being #blown #could #every #family

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#art #beautiful #become #deception #events

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige. ↗

— William Devane

#been #eventually #greg #grow #into

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#confidence #done #eventually #forward #gives

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#bearings #been #chain #deduce #events

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#being #being famous #concert #events #famous

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#entrance #event #go #i #leave

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

#events #fortune #herself #madness #make

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#events #ever #happened #nothing #people