Top 1200 World Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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

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

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

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

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

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

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

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

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you'll never get it back together again, think again.

I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

I'm normally getting glammed for my events and when I can give my skin a break, I do.

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

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

Events are less important than our responses to them.

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

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

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

The early 2000s for me were a very emotional time, politically. I'd been through Reagan and been through first Bush and Clinton, and it's not like I had an easy time through those years. But I just thought it was particularly rough. I have to say the World Trade Center attack was very weird for me. The events that followed were worse. It was a really long swath of time.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

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

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Events bring you small joy, while #? existence brings you bliss.

Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.

Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

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

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

The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

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

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.