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Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there.
View quotes by Steve Davidson

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
View quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
View quotes by Isaac Disraeli

Events happened very rapidly with Francis Morgan that late spring morning
View quotes by Jack London

Sports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
View quotes by Burnett Anderson

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.
View quotes by Christopher Darden

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
View quotes by Queen Victoria

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.
View quotes by Larry Summers

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
View quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Two seemingly unconnected events heralded the summons of Mr. George Miley from his dubious retirement
View quotes by John Le Carre

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent
View quotes by Phillip Adams

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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]
View quotes by Maria Sharapova

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
View quotes by Story Musgrave

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
View quotes by Peter Cooper

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]
View quotes by John Sentamu

Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
View quotes by Thomas Hardy

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
View quotes by Vaclav Havel

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
View quotes by Jefferson Davis

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