Top 1200 World Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory.

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

(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.

I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism is the acceptance that we cannot go by old models any longer. The old models were based upon a single narrative of development that happened along a singular path. In the 20th century, you have electricity, you have transportation by plane, you have the telephone and all the various media that developed, you have a multiplicity of events and voices and creativities that are happening all around the world-and that multiplicity escalated after the war.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

I have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

I believe that music can encourage you to move on from painful events. It helps to make a scar fade.

Mental and physical preparation is critical in tournament poker events like the WSOP.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

The team aspect is what differentiates the Ryder Cup from other premier golf events.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.

I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

I have three wood-fired ovens... I have one at my house, one at my ranch, one on the trailer that I use for charity events.

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

Temple House is starting with clothes, but slowly I plan to extend it to accessories and events.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

Whenever I go out, I have to have a jacket on. I prefer casual ones for a party and semi-formal ones for events.

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'

The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.