I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
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.
Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the way they operate, the fact that they're royalty - and they've always been involved with a lot of the big cosmos events that Marvel has done.
I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.
I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.
I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.
For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
For me, personally, waking up before everyone else in my home allows me to work, respond to emails, or read up on current events without any distractions.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
