Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering,… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars.… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The Romneys have a horse competing in the Olympics. Ann Romney's horse failed to win a medal in the dressage event today,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to… — William III of England Copy Share Image
All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in… — Evangelos Venizelos Copy Share Image
We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events… — Jessica Ennis Copy Share Image
In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
You should have gone to China. You know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A set is created to make dance the crowd not for listening at home. A electronic set should only be heard in… — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they...… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience.… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image