THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a role model, and a series of events took it away from me. — Melina Perez Copy Share Image
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I think it’s a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
With all the endless varieties and toppings you can add to burgers, there's no need to keep munching on the boring burgers… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it,… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or… — Annie Wersching Copy Share Image
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself. — Lin Shaye Copy Share Image
Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down,… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters… — Lucinda Coxon Copy Share Image
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
So today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced, every sorrow we have ever known, every… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
If Rosie’s mother had known that eye colour was not a reliable indicator of paternity, and organised a DNA test to confirm… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
