Quotes About Events

Had the same events occurred a few hundred miles to the east, it is unlikely that they would have had a comparable impact; the details would have been reported on fleetingly and peppered with fewer updates, and the tragedy, like others then and later, would have almost certainly been mourned locally without much resonance beyond the town itself.

In real life we avoid crisis events. In fiction we seek them out.

A story might be character-centered (revolving around personal growth), plot-centered (relating to tasks to be completed), or relationship-centered (focused on developing connections between people), but the story is never driven forward simply by character studies or the procession of events occurring.

My talents, such as they are, have usually been employed in finding the truth of some event that's already taken place. I've never claimed to have any talent for prevention or precognition. I can't foretell the future.

He felt as if he'd somehow stepped out of time. Whatever was going on, he was slipping between its events and effects. He was beyond it, outside of it.

History is a record of many such irrationalities.

The dictionary tells us that fiction is literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people, is invention or fabrication, as opposed to fact. The dictionary tells us that the imaginary exists only in the imagination. Logic tells us that what exists only in the imagination does not exist in reality, or actuality, which the thesaurus tells us are the same thing.

Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.

I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.

I speak at various events, including student societies, several times a week.

We're in the culture business. You are constantly monitoring cultural shifts, current events, shifts in mores, things that reflect society, and, at times, we try to drive it.

One of the reasons I wrote 'Horse Soldiers' was to understand the world my children would inherit after the events of 2001.

If you have multiple events and don't want to spend a lot, I think a solid colour crop top can be used for many different looks.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

I love putting on a red lip. I don't do it so much for events - somehow, I don't seem to get it right - but when I just go to the pub or to a restaurant or something, I just put a red lip on.

Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.

Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment.

E ciudat cât de incapabil sunt s? prev?d evenimente esenÈ›iale, s? ghicesc oamenii care schimb? mai târziu firul vieÈ›ii mele

Myth is an autonomous act of creation by the mind: it is through that act of creation that revelation is brought about – not through the things or events it makes use of.

Something is always happening somewhere.

It's such a big world, She'd say wistfully. Something is always happening somewhere.

Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.