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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.
She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.
You might be a redneck if your momma gives you tips on how to sneak booze into sporting events.
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.
Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.
The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.
I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.
...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.
Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.
I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.
My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.
No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.
In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.