Events Quotes

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

When I get ready for an event, I always look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I look like a transvestite,' I love it.

The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn.

Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.