The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up. — Peter David Copy Share Image
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“It's such a big world," She'd say wistfully. "Something is always happening somewhere.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events. — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases. — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
Throughout my first year in office, some of my most informative conversations have occurred at public, community-focused events like our town halls. — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. — Georges Couthon Copy Share Image
It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem… — Carlos E. Asay Copy Share Image
Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event… — Tom Kristensen Copy Share Image
The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
Users socialize to figure out what they're going to do on the weekend. They use MySpace to discover new music and post… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Before most events, I dry-heave or throw up, because I'm so nervous. It's not enjoyable. — Mat Fraser Copy Share Image
I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image