Events Quotes

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.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

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.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.