Quotes About Events

Overall, then, fasting is how Israel responded when God's glory was dishonored, when God's will was thwarted, when God's people suffered defeat, or when one of God's people experienced sickness, tragedy, or death. God's people, in effect then, took up the posture of God toward grievous events when they fasted.

When I'm afraid of events in world history—when it seems like evil and terror will triumph—let me hear the laughter of heaven.

We might be able to guarantee that events along a closed timelike curve are consistent with the microscopic laws of physics, but in general they cannot be compatible with an uninterrupted increase of entropy along the curve.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie [The Big Short ].

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.

Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.