The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
~By Jacques Delors ~
No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
~By Jefferson Davis ~
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
~By George Santayana ~
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
~By Jane Roberts ~
Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
~By Rob Lowe ~
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
~By Harry Browne ~
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
~By Josh McDowell ~
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
~By Barbara Sher ~
We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
~By Hal Lindsey ~
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
~By Shannon Miller ~
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
~By Chester Brown ~
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events.
~By Henry Reed ~
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
~By Wade Boggs ~
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
~By Cat Stevens ~
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.
~By Lois Capps ~
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
~By Thomas Menino ~
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.
~By Wilford Brimley ~
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.
~By Phil Lesh ~
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.
~By Kelly Jones ~
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
~By James Payn ~
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
~By Sally Quinn ~
The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
~By Eleanor Farjeon ~
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
~By Norman Reilly Raine ~
The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
~By Alan Cranston ~
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
~By Allen Klein ~
Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
~By Stephen Harper ~
I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.
~By Ed Pastor ~
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.
~By Mary Wesley ~
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
~By Christopher Darden ~
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
~By Eliza Dushku ~
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
~By Groucho Marx ~
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
~By John T. Flynn ~
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
~By Leo Kottke ~
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
~By Will Durant ~
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
~By Richard Stallman ~
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
~By Stendhal ~
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
~By Vincent Canby ~
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
~By John Dryden ~
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
~By Ed Bradley ~
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
~By Cotton Mather ~
The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
~By Jon Stewart ~
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
~By Peter Agre ~
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
~By Fran Drescher ~
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
~By Thomas More ~
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
~By Jasper Johns ~
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
~By Teresa de Lauretis ~
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
~By James A. Garfield ~
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
~By Andre Breton ~
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.
~By Craig McCracken ~
It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.
~By Jaime Hernandez ~
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
~By Max Cannon ~
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
~By Lanford Wilson ~
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
~By Thomas Lynch ~
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
~By David Brin ~
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
~By Walther Bothe ~
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