All Quotes

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
‐‐ Lewis Tappan

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
‐‐ Robert Plant

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
‐‐ Eudora Welty

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
‐‐ Vaclav Klaus

The events leading to the discovery of tunnelling supercurrents took place while I was working as a research student at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Brian Pippard.
‐‐ Brian Josephson

The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.
‐‐ John Marshall

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
‐‐ Lakhdar Brahimi

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
‐‐ Donald McCaig

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
‐‐ Christopher Darden

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
‐‐ Robert Falcon Scott

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
‐‐ Catherine McCormack

The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
‐‐ Eric Betzig

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
‐‐ Kelly Miller

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
‐‐ Fritz Todt

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
‐‐ James D. Watson

The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.
‐‐ Said Nursi

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
‐‐ James Hansen

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.
‐‐ Gina Rinehart

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.
‐‐ Robert T. Bakker

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.
‐‐ Dave Sim

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.
‐‐ Adam Rickitt

The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.
‐‐ James E. Faust

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'
‐‐ Bruno Heller

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
‐‐ Albert Camus

The evil that we know is best.
‐‐ Plautus

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
‐‐ Aeschylus

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
‐‐ John Hay

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.
‐‐ David Belle

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
‐‐ Gever Tulley

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
‐‐ John Maynard Smith

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
‐‐ Henry M. Morris

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.
‐‐ Aaron Ciechanover

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
‐‐ Ian Doescher

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
‐‐ Richard Corliss