Events Quotes
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.
These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment.
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event
In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.
I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.
Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire.
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.
Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.
During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.
Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.
Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.