Events Quotes
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Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.
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In some ways, Lotus Eaters is a journey disguised as a party film; there's a circus in the movie, and there are parties, but the real story is of an internal journey. There's themes of emptiness and excess and beauty and grief around it, but it's always surrounded by these glamorous events, and those are ways of waylaying her on her journey in the same way that it is in the ancient Greek story.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
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I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.
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Natural events have completely destroyed this planet on numerous occasions in the past, and just like them we are a natural event destroying this planet.
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. A cynical but perhaps fair assessment
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Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events.
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Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after
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What we see happening as we move further into the twenty-first century is a sovereign God moving through global events to open doors once closed to the gospel.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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I don't believe that people die and come back as spirits, but I think there might be some unexplained events.
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High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.
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Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.
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The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.
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Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.
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Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
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There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.
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In the most absolute tranquility or in the midst of tumultuous events, in safety or danger, in innocence or corruption, we are a crowd of others. And this crowd is certainly a blessing for literature.
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We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.
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Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
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To me I treat each of my events as something to enjoy.
