Quotes: Events

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we’re not obliged to make assessments of what’s going on now and deal with these current events.

I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

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

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Events at home, at work, in the street – these are the bases for a story.

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States’ foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.