Events Quotes - Page 77

Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

We use the web to help people organize in the flesh, and then we take the images of those events and put them back on the web to make them add up to more than the sum of their parts.

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That's why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not.

See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!