Events Quotes · Page 33

True strength lies in openness and working in concert with people and events.

— Connie Nielsen

Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

— Richard Lloyd

“It's such a big world," She'd say wistfully. "Something is always happening somewhere.”

— Mitch Albom

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

— Jean Baudrillard

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

— Robert Smithson

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

— Saul Bellow

'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events.

— Morag Joss

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

— Robert Morgan

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is…

— Anonymous

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their…

— Sophia Loren

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

— Felix Frankfurter

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They…

— Anthony de Mello

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

— Bill Kurtis

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll…

— David Eddings

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on…

— P. J. O'Rourke

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

— Polybius

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in…

— Albert Brooks

As long as I'm working in sport, enjoying it and getting to see some wonderful sporting events, I'm quite happy. I don't…

— Jill Douglas

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God,…

— R. C. Sproul

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more…

— Thaddeus Golas

I seem to have made my friends proud of me/proud to know me. I also feel I've learned and grown a lot…

— Marie Calloway

There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to…

— Marcus Aurelius

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to…

— Joyce Carol Oates

[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation,…

— Mati Unt

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an…

— Rajneesh

Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,…

— Joel Achenbach

Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need…

— Philip Greenspun

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it…

— Anonymous

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no…

— Barack Obama

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and…

— Sam Harris

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

— Alan Watts

I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.

— John Edgar Wideman

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

— Rand Paul

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

— Larry Niven

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

— Peter David

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

— Julius Caesar

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

— George H. W. Bush

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

— Abraham Lincoln