Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen W. Hawking
Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.
Lu Yu
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Dryden, John
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
Russell Green
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.
Matthew Ashford
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
Harry Browne
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
Harry Browne
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.
Claudius Ptolemy
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
Peter Straub
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
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green