Events Quotes

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

Relationships are never chance events.

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

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.

Change is a process not an event.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

Places remember events.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant