Top 1200 World Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

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

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

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

I did charity events with the Cup all the time.

Future events cast their shadow before them.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

I love red or deep purple lips for events.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

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

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

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

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

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

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

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

I don't enjoy being on social media or at events.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

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

For me, I want 10 perfect events.

The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not assert that they are known to anybody, or predictable by scientific means. But it asserts that the future is as little changeable as is the past. Everybody knows what we mean when we say that the past cannot be changed. It is in precisely the same sense that the future cannot be changed, according to metaphysical determinism.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.

The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures, the worldwide audience are by far the best. Do I think at this moment in time it's got the highest quality levels in Europe in terms of Champions League football and domination of that area? In quality terms it needs to rise again to get to that point where it's by far the best in all areas.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm always performing at Gay Pride events.

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

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

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

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

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

This dress code should be mandatory for most events.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.

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

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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

I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they described the world I live in, with all of its subjectivity, irrationality, and paradox, were those which made free use of myths and symbols, fantastic occurences, florid metaphors, linguistic experiments, etcetera - to depict the experiences of relatively 'realistic' characters - on the level of their emotions and psychology, rather than in terms of what kinds of lives they led or what kind of events they experience.

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