Events Quotes - Page 26

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they... bring us just the right information at just the right time.

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.

Training is bad for you! Training followed by rest and proper nutrition is good for you and will make you better prepared for the event you are training for.

With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.