Top 1200 Unfortunate Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

This dress code should be mandatory for most events.

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

'The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

Future events cast their shadow before them.

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

The scary part of alcoholism and addiction and that is until a person is ready to stop, they're not gonna, and there's nothing anyone can do. There's nothing anyone can say or do. And the unfortunate part is sometimes people die because of that.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

My music has been inspired by true events in my life.

People say Altamont was the 'end of the '60s.' It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn't think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

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

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

I believe one must always put events into perspective.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

To me I treat each of my events as something to enjoy.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

I love red or deep purple lips for events.

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

Drama is not a literal portrayal of events. It's a depiction, it's impressionistic.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

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

It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Life events will not define who you are. God says who you are.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

I do my own makeup for events and red carpet stuff.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the inside. It's a little bit unfortunate because people are, like, 'Can you just try harder?' I was, like, 'If you can see what's going on in my head right now, you wouldn't be telling me that.'

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events