Events Quotes - Page 54

I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Future events cast their shadow before them.

Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event and I think that Donald Trump is exactly who governor Reagan warned about.

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

Belief is the capacity to see not only life's surfaces but also its holy depths, to be able to look at events unfolding around us but also to look through them, above them and beneath them to preceive what is truly happening.

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.