Events Quotes · Page 12

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

— Anonymous

Willingness to sacrifice creates great events.

— Tasneem Hameed

“There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Events become feelings, feelings become events

— Jerry Spinelli

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

— Ellen Langer

The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

— Robert D. Hales

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

— Howard Baker

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

— Jillian Michaels

Life is a sequence of events whether you perceive those events as good or bad is your choice, but it is in…

— Jeremy Limn

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's…

— Barbara Kruger

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to…

— David Edelstein

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the…

— Anonymous

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

— Edith Wharton

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

— Anthony Giddens

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

— Andrea Riseborough

Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my…

— Andrew Gross

I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as…

— Daniel Handler

The Olympics are getting mixed reviews. People are angry at NBC for showing a promo that revealed the winner of a swimming…

— Conan O'Brien

There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note…

— Judith Butler

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with…

— Harry Oppenheimer

Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as…

— Steven Van Zandt

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations…

— Guy Debord

United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on…

— Andy Hunter

I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you…

— Tracey Garvis-Graves

The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print.…

— Norman Pearlstine

...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the…

— Anonymous

Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting…

— Patricia Hampl

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything…

— Martin Seligman

Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance…

— Ari Shapiro

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible.…

— Marcus Aurelius

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete…

— Neil Gaiman

I mean, the Men in Hollywood event is every day. It's called Hollywood.

— Jennifer Garner

I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.

— Theodore Roethke

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

— Kevin Spacey

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

— Trevor Moore

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

— Hannah Arendt

A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

— Brent Scowcroft

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

— Jane Roberts

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

— Walter Lord