Events Quotes - Page 34

• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Blow, Curiosity

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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• The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

  William Greider

  Entrepreneur, Creative, Vision

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Plato, Latin, Buddhism

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• For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, People, Three

  Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub

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• The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Order, White

  "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Chapter 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

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• David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.

  Howard Zinn

  Rays, Done, Research

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• The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

  Emily Carr

  Done, Pickles, Outstanding

  c.1940 Quoted in Ira Dilworth's foreword to Klee Wyck (1951edn).

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• Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Data, Discipline, Important

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", p. 24, 1978.

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• I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Nice, Hero, Years

  "Going Deep with Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Class, Sociology, Description

  "The bulletin of mathematical biophysics" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 183), 1949.

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• The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

  Irving Kristol

  Political, Socialism, Century

  "Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea". Book by Irving Kristol, September 20, 1995.

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• Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Years, Tree

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.107

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• Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

  Tanith Lee

  Men, Pressure, Causes

  Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

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• I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.

  Jacques Derrida

  Children, Unveiling, Firsts

  Jacques Derrida (2009). “The Animal That Therefore I Am”, p.28, Fordham Univ Press

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• Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

  Noah Porter

  Men, Practice, Needs

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• To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Compassion, Expansion, Delight

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• Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  James K. Polk

  Country, Gratitude, Blessing

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

  Jennifer Beals

  Choices, Moments, Given

  Windy City Queercast Interview, www.windycityqueercast.com. February 05, 2011.

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• The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

  Hal Clement

  Thinking, Insanity, Aberration

  "Mission of Gravity" by Hal Clement, (Ch. 9), 1954.

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• Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

  James Clavell

  Wise, Alive, Easy

  Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.

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• Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

  Jean Chretien

  Golf, Games, Play

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

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• When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories

  Susannah Cahalan

  Memories, Fire, Smell

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

  Morton Feldman

  Feelings, Abnormal, Strange

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Divorce, Past

  "Beach nut". Interview with Sue Wheat, www.salon.com. February 11, 2000.

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• Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.

  David Brooks

  Confused, School, White

  Interview with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 21, 2015.

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