It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. – Phil Lesh
I haven’t been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry. – Robbie Robertson
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. – Phillip E. Johnson
Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn’t avoid or hide them. – Roh Moo-hyun
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. – Salman Rushdie
Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we’re always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and ‘think pieces’ about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can. – Roxane Gay
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. – Robert Harris
A statesman… must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. – Otto von Bismarck
I’m very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time. – Rick Mercer
Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies. – Rosalind Wiseman
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. – Robin Givhan
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. – Peter Straub
In the 40 years since ‘The Amityville Horror’, dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough – special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough – that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization’s loyalty to the core story. – Stephen Graham Jones
As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding. – Tom Brady
I rope steers in team roping events. There’s a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I’m the heeler. – Wilford Brimley
There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single ‘reliable’ narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here? – Susan Barker
The threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness. – Sheri Fink
I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can’t suspend disbelief. – Sylvester Stallone
The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it’s been pretty humdrum ever since. – T. C. Boyle
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events. – Will McDonough
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. – Wislawa Szymborska
It turned out I really didn’t like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events. – Tawni O’Dell
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. – Tony Robbins
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth. – Susan Barker