Events Quotes - Page 36

The New York Marathon: a fantastic event.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

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

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

The interpretive mechanism of the left celebral hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reason, even when there is none - which leads it continually to make mistakes.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.