Happenings Quotes - Page 12

• We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Talking

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.59, The Golden Sufi Center

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• The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.

  Brian Greene

  Memories, Past, Special

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.175, Vintage

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• Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

  Maury Povich

  Mean, Years, Long

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• HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

  Roger Goodell

  Olympics, Tests, Testing

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• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Real, Somewhere Else

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• I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Moving, Jazz

  "Sonny Rollins: 'You Can't Think And Play At The Same Time'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. May 3, 2014.

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• There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film on Louis Armstrong. What they accomplished, we could never accomplish today...What's happening now is lightweight compared to what happened before. If Louis Armstrong was alive today, he'd be a superstar. If Art Tatum was alive today, my god, all the piano players would get on their knees. So that's what's missing today; we've been cut off from our heritage.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Appreciation, Art

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• American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Children, Cancer, Heart

  Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (2010). “Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.

  Gary Lightbody

  Beautiful, Darkness, Inward

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• Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.

  David Jeremiah

  Cancer, Steps, Sometimes

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• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Practice, Tennis, Trying

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• Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

  Trudi Canavan

  Pain, Mean, Feelings

  Trudi Canavan (2009). “Last of the Wilds: Age of the Five Gods Trilogy Book 2, The”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

  Jan Hammer

  Talking, Voice, America

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• Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing.  That's why we don't understand what's happening.

  Jacque Fresco

  Love Is, Fixed

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• I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

  Mary Fallin

  Oklahoma, Frustrated, Cost

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• No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

  Freeman Dyson

  Memories, Information, Matter

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• No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me. I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others. If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.

  Bill W.

  Teacher, Heart, Responsibility

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• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  George Takei

  Country, Order, Achievement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

  Pierre Loti

  Children, Mind, Happy Day

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• Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

  Duane G. Carey

  Two, Space, Orbit

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• Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Mind, Suffering, Letters

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• The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

  S. N. Goenka

  Mind, Aversion, Vipassana

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• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Mental Health, Said

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

  Peter Arnett

  Baghdad, Apologizing, Reports

  "Just fired, Peter Arnett hired by British paper". Interview with Piers Morgan, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2003.

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• I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Beautiful, Blessed, Eye

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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