Quotes About Events

So you're like a ... an amateur sleuth?" "God no. I'm more like the hapless guys in those film-noir flicks we used to watch. I keep getting tangled up in bizarro events." "Oh yes?" His eyes lit with enthusiasm. I was speaking his language now. "Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential or William Hurt in Body Heat ?" "I was thinking more like Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam .

Define history. Was it the sequence of factual past events, the stories about the factual sequence of past events, or the interpretation of the stories about past events?

As time passed, events became mutable. People justified their actions, and the more shame they felt about a memory, the more they chewed it over, fretting and defending and editing, until they could live with it.

It wasn't like the news delighted her, nothing like. But I saw her get a tiny tickle in the schadenfreude as she registered that this happened on Dad's watch.

William Ashe doesn't believe in destiny. The word itself is actually shorthand people use when they wish to mysticize random events or externalize the results of their own willful choices.

In particular, he named three kinds of troubles that could beset a person with a nervous temperament: poor weather, isolation or idleness, and stressful events.

Un cisne negro es, según una teoría reciente, un suceso terrible de alto impacto que ni la ciencia ni la historia podría haber anticipado, y que sólo puede ser racionalizado a posteriori. Como el 11-S, la crisis inmobiliaria de 2008 o el regreso de las riñoneras.

Az ? korában, akárcsak a miénkben, az érzelmeket jelentéssel ruházták fel, de míg a huszadik században az érzelmeket a tapasztalás eredményének, a küls? események végs?, lelki termékének tekintjük, a tizenhetedik században ezek önmagukban jelentettek tapasztalást; az érzelmek adtak értelmet és formát a történéseknek, és ezek igazolták az erkölcsi igazságokat.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

They are having their parties catered. For free.

He has shown himself to be someone who is worthy of my gratitude. For you understand, my child"—Colette was again writing to Germaine Patat—"everything I'm not speaking of in this letter.… Distance and reflexion have been working on me, and I am obliged to observe that I've been brought to this place by a well-prepared train of events, which horrifies me. I also know that the house I shall return to will be empty.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Ya lo ven, hay gente que no asume la historia, que el paso de los siglos y sus aconteceres no tienen importancia para ellos.

Não se pode alterar a história, a história foi o que foi.

A lot could happen in a week. Just look at the last one.

There were a lot of things that happened at Indiana that I was proud of.

It's extremely easy to get people to share what events they are going to because events are inherently social.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.

People tell me about my record in ICC events, but frankly speaking, the intent has always been the same.

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

I think people have to read more and learn more about what's going on internationally.