Top 1200 World Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

I have to wear Eloquii to red carpet events where my friends are wearing custom Versace.

The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

When I'm writing about complicated subjects, it usually involves a world. It could be the world of Scientology or the world of Al Qaeda, or the world of counter-terrorism.I look for emblematic beasts of burden - what I call "donkeys" - who can carry the reader through this world. They serve a different purpose. Donkeys are not especially interesting or likeable, but they are serviceable. They will take you into this world. The distinction I'm trying to make is: It's not about them. It's about the world.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

I speak at various events, including student societies, several times a week.

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

There are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

I'd love to see the 200s, the 50s, the 400 IM. I would do so many events.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Not every woman goes to sporting events to find men, but 2-3 percent of women do.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

When I'm on set, I'm 100 percent comfortable, but at events and photo shoots, I'm beyond nervous.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us to deduce that he is a political nitwit. Other Nobel laureates have been nitwits, for instance, Bertrand Russell. There are a lot of political nitwits in this world. Perhaps the Times could give Krugman a cooking column. He would be its Nobel Prise-winning cooking columnist.

Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.

Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

I'm either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.