Top 1200 Unfortunate Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.

Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events.

We got spoiled with 'Friday Night Lights.' Not every show is like that, and on other shows, if you try to bring that same truth or that same approach, the system of television doesn't always allow for that level of collaboration, which is unfortunate because the work would be richer.

[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I think there's often a negative associated with being passionate or geeky about entertainment, but for me, entertainment has always been a greater, psychological escape, so I think it's unfortunate when others don't appreciate the depth of passion entertainment offers.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.

All of the major events are fun. Obviously the Olympic Games is top.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

If I could, I'd wear my sneakers everywhere, even for dinners or events.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

Events are less important than our responses to them.

I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.

Sometimes you are the only living, walking, breathing version of the Bible that people will ever see. What long-lasting taste are you going to leave in their mouths? A lot of people have left a bad taste. And it's so unfortunate, because God is the best!

The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

I do my own make-up, even when I have to attend all these film events.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

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

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.

All painful events have a purpose, and mine has made my life what it is today.

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

I go to a lot of events morning, noon and night when I'm not in Washington.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.

People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt 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.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.