In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the… — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events,… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I have had a wonderful time. I don't think things could have gone any better for me because I was football-mad as… — John Motson Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance,… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups. — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I probably shouldn't say this but I collect little souvenirs from dinner events or ceremonies. It can be a small spoon or… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
It's not my future, but it's NASCAR's future, to make sure that we take events to the biggest metropolitan areas of the… — Brian France Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place. — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but… — David Frum Copy Share Image