Quotes About Event

There was an event called the World Transformed, which was set up by Momentum, and people from across the political spectrum have had to tip their hat to it. It's vibrant, with interesting discussions and ideas. That's why it's such an interesting political moment.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, another hinge event in American history, 9/11 was a great tactical victory for America's enemies. But in both these cases, the tactical success of the attacks was not matched by strategic victories. Quite the reverse.

I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years - but I hadn't been interested in doing a documentary about it. I felt there had been a lot done about Vietnam, and didn't know if I could add anything new to the discussion.

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.

We need a right view of the cross. It is both a historical event that can take us to Heaven and a current event that can bring Heaven to bear on Earth.

One of the attributes of the saint is that he has no fear, for fear is anticipating some disagreeable event that might come or expecting that something beloved might pass away in the future. The saint is concerned only with the present moment. He has no future to fear.

Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference. I frowned. There's...a law of conservation of history?

I kicked him in the head with my rented formal shoes. My shoe went flying off, which I was pretty sure never happened to James Bond. The

COME ONE, COME ALL! TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST GIRLS' HERAEAN OLYMPIC GAMES, YOU'RE INVITED TO A PARTY. IT STARTS AT SUNDOWN IN THE CUPOLA. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.

It seemed that people could walk through life without causing a ripple, leading ordinary and uneventful lives. It was only after they'd been murdered that people took notice of them.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

Fashionably late. Hope it was great.

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

You might want to intellectualize your intentions, "I'm doing an allegory on the state of modern man in relation to the inherent dignity of the human soul." That's great. Save it for the interview after your movie is a hit. To write it, think in terms of one man, not mankind. Ask yourself, "Suppose event x happens to him. What would my hero do about it?

I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

A news event in 1995 shocked both sides in the culture war controversy. Norma Leah McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in the famous Supreme Court case of 1973, converted to Christ, got baptized, and joined the pro-life campaign.