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

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
Billie Jean King

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

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
Stephen Harper

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.
Vaclav Havel

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
H. P. Blavatsky

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
David Rockefeller

Events are not a matter of chance.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
Thomas More

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Ibrahim Babangida

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
Alanis Morissette

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
James A. Garfield

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Naguib Mahfouz

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.
Enya

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
Enya

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.
Howard Stern

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
John Berger