Events Quotes - Page 33

Literature is analysis after the event.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events. - Vida Winter

Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously , everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

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.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line? How can you step into tennis with any confidence? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of.

That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.