Events Quotes - Page 15

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

  Hannah Arendt

  Ideas, Distinguished, Unprecedented

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• My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

  Duane Michals

  Transient

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• There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

  Tony Blair

  New York, People, Way

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• Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Movie, Real, Mind

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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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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• I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

  Rick Mercer

  Lucky, Beats, Currents

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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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• View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

  Wayne Dyer

  Attitude, Opportunity, Views

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.166, Hay House, 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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• If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

  Angela Merkel

  Taken, Learning, Looks

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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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• The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Long, People

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• ... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.

  Walter Mosley

  Character, Writing, Blood

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• After the event, even a fool is wise.

  Homer

  Wise, Fool, Hindsight

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2084, Delphi Classics

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• In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

  David Riesman

  Attitude, People, Childhood

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

  Ellen Barkin

  House, Littles, Homebodies

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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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• I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

  Tibor Fischer

  Half, Literature, Arguing

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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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