Events Quotes - Page 27

• Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Passionate, World, Protest

  "Liberty, Justice, and Freedom of Information for All" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;... We are telling of what the prophets have said-of what the Lord has said to Joseph. Wake up now, wake up, O Israel, and lay up your grain and your stores. I tell you that there is trouble coming upon the world.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Israel, Evil, Wake Up

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• Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Long, Age

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

  Sam Shoemaker

  Ancient, Christianity, Currents

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• Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

  Haim Ginott

  Personality, Parent, Conflict

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• Places remember events.

  James Joyce

  Remember

  James Joyce, Phillip F. Herring (1972). “Joyce's Ulysses notesheets in the British Museum”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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• Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

  Joseph Campbell

  Ubiquity, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell (1972). “Myths to live by”, Viking Pr

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• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

  George Steiner

  Impact, Media, Vision

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Commitment, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

  Karl Kraus

  Morning, Up Early, Stupidity

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, America, May

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

  Hannah Arendt

  Ideas, Distinguished, Unprecedented

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• All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

  Novalis

  Materials, Our Lives

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• The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

  Stephen Spender

  Civilization, Doe, Individual

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.285, Univ of California Press

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• To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Phones, Encounters, Purpose

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, East Germany, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

  Robert Holden

  Attitude, Keys, Differences

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.5, Hay House, Inc

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• No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Spiritual, Spirit, Great Spiritual

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

  Charles Darwin

  Uncles, Science, Offering

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.113, NYU Press

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• I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Book, Taken

  "What the 2012 Prophecy Is Really About" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.

  Robert Burchfield

  Believe, English Grammar, Years

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• It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

  Charles Portis

  Rocks, Progress, President

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• In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

  Alan Lightman

  Artist, Delight, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

  Robert Tappan Morris

  Death, Hate, Men

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