In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event — Peggy Fleming Copy Share Image
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
In that - and that is my personal view - Singapore delivers the most value, as they think about Formula One as… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant,… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such… — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Copy Share Image
There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you think you have no power over what happens in the outside world, this is a belief and an agreement you… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal… — John Granger Copy Share Image
I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons.… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
My best event is Super-G. I'm competitive in all my events, but Super-G has been most consistent for me. — Julia Mancuso Copy Share Image
I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have… — Gary Sherman Copy Share Image
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event… — David Chang Copy Share Image
By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
