Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.
There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.
Language is a social event.
Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions. . . this especially applies to what we used to call bad things. . . the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.
I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.
A goal is a planned event
Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
No. 1 music event in 1998? 'Weird Al gets LASIK to cure his myopia. At the same time, he grows out his hair and shaves his mustache, drastically changing his look. '
I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.
I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos Def when he first "got" hip-hop and he went into this memory about how hearing someone rap really affected him. He wasn't simply remembering the event. It was almost like he was occupying that space again. When you can really transport an interview subject like that, your readers can feel it and it helps them to connect with the artist.
The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.