Events Quotes - Page 34

• In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

  Ruth Park

  Morning, Sea, Sky

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• The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Media, People

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• As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Courage, Morning, Mean

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• It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Men, Earth, Mystery

  Eugene O'Neill (1987). “Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book”, G. Narr Verlag

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• The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Men

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• A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfect, Realizing

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• I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.

  Burton Silverman

  Passion, People, Needs

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• Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

  Kate Morton

  Might, Remember, Wonder

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  Tad R. Callister

  Jesus, Discovery, Acquisition

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• I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

  Theophilus London

  Museums, Design, Want

  "Theophilus London’s ‘All Around The World’ Video Is A Trip All Around The World" by Brett Michael Dykes, www.uproxx.com. April 18, 2012.

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• It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

  Chris Kyle

  People, Sometimes, Individual

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• As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.

  Lev Manovich

  Order, Enemy, Culture

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• Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in unity against extremism in all its forms and to stand up for our cherished faith, Islam. And so that the lasting image of these terrible events is an unprecedented outpouring of sympathy and support between people of all faiths and cultures.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Kings, Paris, Terrible Events

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• As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Jobs, Black

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• When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Successful, Opportunity, Men

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• Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Giving, Give Me

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• I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Looks, Goes On

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.66, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Writing, Names

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• All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with - and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Real, Government

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Terrible Events, Evil People

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• Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

  Neil Abramson

  Real, Grief, Thinking

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• The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Struggle, Echoes, Agency

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “Biographia Literaria: Top Biography”, p.123, 谷月社

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