There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events. – Charles Kennedy
A proper family diary with everyone’s events and parties in it really helps organise the household. – Anthea Turner
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. – Anita Diament
See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations. – Adoniram Judson
I don’t start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental. – Ashwin Sanghi
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal. – Aimee Bender
We can’t recreate Woodstock, nor do we want to. We want to turn its notoriety into a place where we can shape controlled, scaled-down musical events of all sorts. – Alan Gerry
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples. – Claire Tomalin
I’ve always kept a low profile. I’m not comfortable at social events or parties. I feel awkward. So if I’m not working, I prefer to remain in my own zone. – Anushka Sharma
Usually, I come for film promotions or events, but I have so many fond memories of Delhi. – Anushka Sharma
I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events. – Bernadine Dohrn
We all get so excited about the big events, but when there’s an animal involved, it’s ten times harder. – Charlotte Dujardin
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. – Christopher Lasch
Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it’s hard. – Andrea Riseborough
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. – Charles Caleb Colton
It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses. – Brad Pitt
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. – Agnes Smedley
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of ’84, when he won. He’d had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events – and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points. – Caitlyn Jenner
Naturally enough, I couldn’t have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. – Brian Ferneyhough
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it. – Carl Lewis
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. – Alfred de Vigny
I’ve been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events. – BeBe Winans