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Quotes About Events

It is gratifying to know that, whatever the course of events, you are helping others to do good. Many of us can afford to support some part of the vast network of charities that one of our former presidents called "a thousand points of light." Those points of light are best seen, like stars at dusk, against a darkening sky.
~ Timothy Snyder
So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean. The effort to define the shape and significance of events requires words and concepts that elude us when we are entranced by visual stimuli. Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.
~ Timothy Snyder
Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one.
~ Timothy Snyder
Where there are local reporters, journalism concerns events that people see and care about. When local reporters disappear, the news becomes abstract. It becomes a kind of entertainment rather than a report about the familiar.
~ Timothy Snyder
For many Europeans and Americans, events in the 2010s—the rise of antidemocratic politics, the Russian turn against Europe and invasion of Ukraine, the Brexit referendum, the Trump election—came as a surprise.
~ Timothy Snyder
E' un aspetto, questo, dello stano mestiere del cronista che non cessa di affascinarmi e, al tempo stesso, di inquietarmi: i fatti non registrati non esistono.
~ Tiziano Terzani
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A sense of immediacy prevails in the society of enjoyment to such an extent that events seem meaningless—as if they occur outside of any context that might allow us to decipher them. What is lacking is a sense of universality that would mediate particular events and render them comprehensible.
~ Todd McGowan
Without the universal, we lose the ability to interpret the events occurring in our everyday lives—we lose the ability to find meaning—because it is only the universal that makes interpretation possible.
~ Todd McGowan
While the primary riot shall be held in Liége (now Luik) itself (and shall be broadcast live in the Kingdom of Ireland on the Iodadh Motostream), smaller riots shall be held around the world. In Ireland the principal events shall be in Dublin, Belfast and Cork, but consult your local papers for additional events that may be organised nearer to where you live.
~ Tom Anderson
Events, or acts of understanding, are the actions of a subject expressed as a verb, the reality of which derives from the person who conjugates it.3 For
~ Tom Cheetham
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
~ Mason Cooley
We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
~ Benigno Aquino III
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
~ Thomas Hardy
I don't like big events and crowded areas. I'm almost a curmudgeonly old man in that aspect. I've been like that forever.
~ Tom Segura
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
~ Luke Donald
I love all the attention I've got since becoming Olympic champion and being asked to go to different events, but boxing is what I do.
~ James DeGale
It's an Olympic year, man, and crazy stuff always happens in an Olympic year.
~ Justin Gatlin
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
~ Shannon Miller
All of the major events are fun. Obviously the Olympic Games is top.
~ Jordan Larson
One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.
~ Lauren Gibbs
I think anytime you experience the All-Star Games, the World Cups, the Olympics and all those things - those are great experiences, and those don't come along that often.
~ Barry Trotz
Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.
~ Nicholas Kristof
No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.
~ Anish Giri