Top 1200 Recent Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.

Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect.

In recent years it's become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.

An acoustic ecologist is a listener who is aware that sound is information. It's information because it's created by events, events produce sound, and that sound has all kinds of data, if you will, that conveys what event occurred, what the materials were, whether it was sudden, slow, loud, in what direction. And because it is information, we can think of it as a message. The acoustic ecologist studies information systems that are both intentional and sometimes wild.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

I'm not a big fan of horror movies, especially the recent teen-slasher sort of ones.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud during the 2016 elections or any relatively recent election.

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.

The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.

In recent days, the media, as it usually does, has missed the whole point on immigration.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

I think that it drives from an emotional connection with everybody that pulls you through all of those events, whether it's the events or what would be more the action, or I guess the visual effects side of it. So it always starts with me from - emotionally - 'Why do you care about the people who are going through what they're going through?' Because it takes a hell of a lot to put them through that. So you better care for them when they're doing it.

Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

In recent years, we`ve made historic investments in NATO, increased America`s presence in Europe.