Events Quotes

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

When you emit the perfect frequency of what you want, the perfect people, circumstances, and events will be attracted to you and delivered!

I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Worship isn't an event to attend & watch. It's a lifestyle to be lived.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not that bad people do bad things, but that good people do bad things.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

You might be a redneck if your momma gives you tips on how to sneak booze into sporting events.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

The law of attraction says that like attracts like, and when you think and feel what you want to attract on the inside, the law will use people, circumstances and events to magnetize what you want...

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.