Events Quotes - Page 7

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate... You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind. And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur. In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.