Quotes About Event

only two men appeared not in costume: William Henry "Billy" Vanderbilt and his friend Ulysses S. Grant. They both wore white tie.

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

The first thing to describe is the event, not your attitude to it. Your attitude has to be made clear by the film as a whole, to be part of its total impact. In a mosaic each separate piece is of a particular, single colour. It may be blue, or white, or red — they are all different. And then you look at the completed picture and see what the author had in mind.

was killed at Bridge of Dee, September

There's going to be another wedding in the family!

There's more good news," Kristy said. "I hate to say this, but I'm afraid we're going to have to cancel the winter carnival.

We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

ADVENTURE  (ADVE'NTURE)   n.s.[French.]1. An accident; a chance; a hazard; an event of which we have no direction. The general summoned three castles that were near: one desperate of succour, and not desirous to dispute the defence, presently yielded; but two stood upon their adventure.Sir John Hayward.2. In this sense is used the phrase, at all adventures;[à l'adventure, Fr.]By chance; without any rational scheme.

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It was just one of those things, I said, You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened! The gum cost a dollar, but the story was free.

To me, the highlight of the event is watching a reenactor in a long striped dress sitting alone on a blanket, winding yarn. Absorbed in the task of wrapping strands of wool around her hand, she never looks up. Watching her is so mesmerizing and oddly sacred that it never occurs to me to interrupt her and ask her name or how she got into the yarn-winding reenactment biz, maybe because she isn't recreating; she is creating.

To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened!

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de

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Joseph Campbell, the renowned scholar of religion and mythology, eloquently summed up, "This is it. This is Eden. When you see the kingdom spread upon the earth, the old way of living in the world is annihilated. That is the end of the world. The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance.

Sense of Wonder (...) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe.

The event when it came was grand and wild and lasted days, with no priest to read Latin, but a brehon binding the pair in the first degree of the ten degrees of marriage that could be applied.

the truth of the event does not belong to the order of identificatory knowledge, as if our life's charge were to track down and learn the secret name of some fugitive spirit.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

?s I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.