I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Today’s events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God’s objection. They believed that… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going… — J. R. Bourne 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
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
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
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
I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather… — Henry Kaufman Copy Share Image
The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent. — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of anyone thinking that I don't put a lot of thought about the cost to taxpayers. I make… — Jacinda Ardern Copy Share Image
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music. — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will… — Fabian Cancellara Copy Share Image
When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
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