Events Quotes - Page 14

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

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

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

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness.

We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe.

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

Relationships are never chance events.