Top 1200 World Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

In all the events of life, you must recognize the Divine will. Adore and bless it, especially in the things which are the hardest for you.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

We may forget, or be unaware of, how prevalent it is to be sexually traumatized by events that are generally not thought of as traumatizing.

I keep telling my American friends, "If you think of Donald Trump as only something that is happening inside the United States, you're missing it." Because there are Trump-like events happening across the Western world, in Warsaw Pact countries, in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands. As we speak, the second-largest party in the Dutch legislature - who's more level-headed than the Dutch? - is Geert Wilders's party, which is a very Trump-like party, and they've got 33 out of 150 seats.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.

I don't believe that people die and come back as spirits, but I think there might be some unexplained events.

I'v planted my seeds for my upcoming events. but right now, Im just waiting for them to bloom

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

If I have something to do, an event to do, I am taking it serious. I remember those times when I wish I had events to do.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Being on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families.

There are events on all the time in London and because I get nervous going to things, I'd down my drinks quickly.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari

[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies.

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

Prestigious events like the Main Event at the WSOP are marathon races. Fatigue is sure to set in.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

Maybe we can see more men's and women's combined events so the young players can be marketed better.