Events Quotes - Page 53

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event.

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.

Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.

Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we don't actually see the very hard work that goes to build confidence towards those events. And we don't have a shared discussion.

There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and then the second chapter is a kind of conjectural event, somebody's shot and then there's an uprising. But there's no consideration, no chapter on preparation.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.