Events Quotes
Short reflections on what happens and what it means.
This collection reflects on events from a few angles: how memories of games and gatherings tend to blur together over time, and the argument that duty should guide a person more than any single event. Related reading is available in our History quotes.
Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.
I go to a lot of events morning, noon and night when I'm not in Washington.
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It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
People are tweeting, texting, and e-mailing - and not connecting. There are very few ways for communities to come together. It happens at concerts and at sporting events.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can...
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
I'm either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
We may forget, or be unaware of, how prevalent it is to be sexually traumatized by events that are generally not thought of as traumatizing.
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
