Quotes About Events

Or in the future, dreading possible calamities and unpleasantnesses, anticipating future joys, dreaming of future events.

To consider water on any scale was to confront a boundless repetition of small events. There were the tiny wonders: rain drops, snow crystals, grains of frost aligned on a blade of grass; and there were the wonders so immense it seemed impossible to get his mind around them: global wind, oceanic currents, storms that broke like waves over whole mountain ranges. p 46

A great center for gladiatorial combats, it boasted a fine amphitheater

AS far as it could, the Senate allowed events to take their course, intervening only when absolutely necessary.

Thucydides is the greatest writer of history in history. In fact, he is so good that we are trapped inside his version of events.

No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.

But the worst of it was the sense of helplessness — that events had taken over and I was being steered by them rather than the other way round.

The events that lead up to a murder are as closely bound together as the atoms that make up a molecule. It is all too easy to disregard or overlook a single atom, but if you do so, the sugar that you were expecting may turn out to be salt.

We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

When I first started doing exhibitions, you'd have 20 people down the pub, if you were lucky.

We're more pub and football guys rather than walking the red carpets.

There's public health risks to doing large political gatherings, but in this country - and we do still live in America - we protect the right to free speech and we protect the right to political discourse and political events.

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?

Thanos and Adam Warlock are two of a kind because they're both sort of out of the norm: out of the circle of life and death that falls on top of everyone else. Both have had multiple deaths and resurrections, and they always seem to get pulled in as key players for cosmic events.

I love red or deep purple lips for events.

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

People will come up to me at live events or wherever and have me sign Canadian flags or the old 'Team Canada' shirt and have me talk about those days back in 'Team Canada,' so it's a moment that I'm proud of.

I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.