“Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.” WorldYearsFilmGrowthInvolvedTenTrainingHappeningsReflectionYears AgoImmenseDocumentariesMineralsMining Author:Ann Macbeth
“There are so many things happening nowadays that you've seen in films from years ago, like cloning and all of those things are actually happening now, so we can kind of visualize it a lot more, and I think our generation particularly know that we're going to be a big part of that, we we're kind of fascinated with how human beings will fare in the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldYearsHumansKindBigsFilmHuman BeingsGenerationsHappeningsYears AgoThings HappenFascinatedOur GenerationCloning Author:Kaya Scodelario
“We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.” YearsMillionsPlanetsHappeningsYears AgoExtinctionOur PlanetDinosaurs Author:Jeff Corwin
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.” YearsTwoLawThreePlanetsThousandNormalHappeningsHundredYears AgoNew ThingsThousand YearsNormal Things Author:Jimmy Cliff
“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.” ThinkingShouldYearsSaidSeemsWould BeChristianChristWeekShareEventsProduceMonthsHappeningsYears AgoThings HappenFulfilledProphecyUrgencyBible Prophecy Author:Greg Laurie
“The things that were happening 30 years ago are now very interesting to people, now very much in style again. There is some kind of 30 year resonance that goes through human culture and expresses itself in different ways.” PeopleWayYearsHumansKindDifferentCultureInterestingStyleHappeningsYears AgoDifferent WaysVery InterestingResonance Author:Owsley Stanley
“I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.” WorldYearsCountryFormFeltHappenedIgnoranceParticularHappeningsYears AgoCirclesSuperficialSinkingHappening Again Author:Raoul Peck
“It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.” YearsTodayRacePracticeImpossibleHappeningsYears AgoSlaveryContemporaryExecutionPenaltiesHauntingDeath PenaltyLynchingEerie Author:Shane Claiborne
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsVegetablesMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he's told. He doesn't care. He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever. Everybody thinks that.” ThinkingKnowsYearsCareBornKnow HowWorstColdHappeningsYears AgoHe Doesn't Care Author:Rush Limbaugh
“But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksStatesLawChallengesUnitedUnited StatesHappeningsYears AgoFocusedLaw EnforcementEnforcementFbi Author:Robert Mueller
“All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!” YearsTwoAmericaFourHappenedMinutesRocksHappeningsHundredYears AgoHotHamburgersMayflowerPlymouthPlymouth Rock Book:Middlesex: A Novel Source: Middlesex: A Novel
“What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.” YearsFirstsEndsHappensActionLastsProcessSecretStepsHappeningsYears AgoMovedWork OutAcceptedOpeningFirst StepsMinistryDiariesInvoluntary Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.” PeopleWorldTryingYearsLittlesMadeMatterJobsLosesSinBearsCivilizationLateHappeningsYears AgoBlameContributionToo LateReportersNaziTrue YouWillful Ignorance Book:Dream of Scipio Source: Dream of Scipio
“She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.” IfsYearsSaidTwoWould BeCareDiesCoursesHeavenSocialHappeningsYears AgoTwentiesWorkersTake CareTwo YearsSocial WorkerGreat FamilyHazel GraceTwenty TwoTwo Years AgoGoing To HeavenHazel Grace Lancaster Author:John Green