Events Quotes - Page 23

• To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Horizon, Burning

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Thinking, Importance, Feels

  Rudger Clawson, Wilford Woodruff (1993). “Waiting for World's End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff”

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• Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

  Greg Kinnear

  Real, Taken, Liberty

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• As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.

  Luke Goss

  Ties, Black, Going Out

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• One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.

  Robert Bly

  Religious, Writing, Character

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• The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

  Enya

  Red, Appearance, Carpet

  "Everyone Thinks I'm So Shockable". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 24, 2005.

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• Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

  Sharon Salzberg

  Usual, Gaps, Mental Health

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• Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

  John Drinkwater

  Greatness, Men, Poetry

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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• The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

  Tim Holden

  Attitude, Holocaust, Erode

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• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Ernst Zundel

  Country, Running, War

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• Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

  Garry Kasparov

  Women, Titles, Adjectives

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.77, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Israel, People, Culture

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Heart

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the west. The question is, will the sequence continue further ... Unfortunately, we think the answer is yes.

  Thomas Parsons

  Thinking, Istanbul, East

  " Istanbul advised to brace for major quake", www.cnn.com. April 28, 2000.

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• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Past, Testimony

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

  Jennifer Wyatt

  Running, Mind, Helping

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• The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Kind, Awareness

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• I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Return, Energy

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.

  Chris Ware

  Love, Writing, Eye

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• A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

  John Dos Passos

  Mirrors, People, Hatred

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• If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

  John Thorn

  Games, Ties, Century

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• 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.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Tyrants, Impossible

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

  George Orwell

  Ukraine, People, Majority

  George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover

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