Events Quotes - Page 74

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

What a strange turn of events.

it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This leaves no room for non-physical things to make a causal difference to physical effects. But it would be absurd to deny that thoughts and feelings (and population movements and economic depressions . . .) cause physical effects. So they must be physical things.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well as experience the glorious wonderful present! We will see, hear, feel and experience the very events of the past, just as they happened.

No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.

Events in the present can trigger quite a young part of ourselves. If we don't take responsibility and start looking after that young part of ourselves, we can start asking partners to look after that part of ourselves or we wound ourselves.