“There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.” WellsSaidOrderHappenedBlairElectorate Author:John Prescott
“The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.” KindLastsOrderCoursesForceHappenedAirMilitaryMedicineViolentCombatPsychiatryAssignmentsAir ForceEnlisted Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“God has left that for the rest of time and eternity in order to give us something to do in the hereafter. We'll be able to learn more about the past and why things happened, as well as God's logic and purposes and the meaning of it all.” GivingWellsAblePastPurposeOrderLeftHappenedLogicEternityThings HappenHeavenlyHereafter Author:David Berg
“Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so often they squander on trifles? If this has happened to you, do not forget that you are obliged to pay back to the person concerned all that you gave to the poor without the knowledge or consent of your employers. Then again, there is the one who has been entrusted by his employer with the supervision of the staff, or of workmen, who gives out wine and all sorts of other things to them if they ask him.” PeopleIfsGivingShouldPersonsHas BeensOrderAsksForgetPoorPayHappenedConcernedWineStaffConsentWagesEmployersObligedTriflesCharitableWorkmenAlmsSupervision Author:John Vianney
“Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.” MomentsOrderHappenedDivinePerfectionProsperityOver YouMoments In TimeLiving In The PastDivine Right Author:Marianne Williamson
“In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.” PeopleKnowsWayAbleSpiritOrderLeftHappenedOughtSeekingOne WayGrantsWearyVenerationLeft Handed Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.” Has BeensSaidReligionOrderFateHappenedChangedParadise Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.” PeopleLooksTwoWholeFilmNightOrderThreeBitsHoursHappenedGroupsMinutesPerformancesTheatreEvery Night Author:Kevin Spacey
“I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksWarReasonWantedOrderHappenedSubjectsMy WayMake SenseWar Of The WorldsHistorianWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Nicholson Baker
“I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.” PeopleThinkingIdeasRealFactsShowsOrderWatchesMillionsHappenedTelevisionSurvivalStorytellingMediumsBest ThingsRichnessThematic Author:Damon Lindelof
“A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.” PlayOrderHappenedUnityChaosIntenseReportsPoetry IsPoeticInterpretationConstructionSymbolicDistortion Author:Arthur Miller
“This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.” BelieveHappensOrderDifferencesHappenedEventsCloudsAttributesLightningCollide Author:Seneca the Younger
“When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three times around the block to get in. And when they got to the head of the queue, they'd go, "I'll have a Big Mac please. Have you the cheese and the rolls? And do you have the meat and do you have the salad?" And everybody asks this because they are so used to things being awful that it took them a quarter of an hour to order a Big Mac.” BigsUsedOrderThreeAsksHoursHappenedPleaseBlockAwfulMeatQuartersCheeseThree TimesSaladMcdonaldsMacsMoscowQueuesBig Mac Author:John Gimlette