The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. – Arthur Erickson
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. – Bob Graham
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He’s elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four. – Mark Spitz
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. – George Santayana
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. – Phyllis Schlafly
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. – Ed Bradley
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I’ve made, and sometimes they’re fantastical. – Mark Mothersbaugh
Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. – Greg Kinnear
I want to get faster every year, keep my confidence high, so I can continue dominating my main events and extend my range to other freestyle and medley races. – Chad le Clos
Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable. – Mike Leigh
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Now very often events are set up for photographers… The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn’t been photographed it doesn’t really exist. – Elliott Erwitt
The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods. – Ezra Taft Benson
I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters’ credentials, so we could witness the events. – Dixie Lee Ray
We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. – Emily Greene Balch
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He’s still here in the United States. – P. J. O’Rourke
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life. – Franz Boas
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. – Georg Simmel
Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable. – Evangelos Venizelos
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them. – Donald McCaig