If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
A major announcement. Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again,… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their… — Steve House Copy Share Image
Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event,… — Mike Tirico Copy Share Image
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Minus my relationship with Kennedy, I had no automatic invitation to Greek Parties or events, though Chaz and Erin could invite me… — Tammara Webber 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
Consciousness comes first; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is a possibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
In new written testimony, just out as part Freedom of Information Act request, Hillary Clinton said she couldn't remember, recall, or anything… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side.… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
Look at the Bethlehem birth. A king ordered a census. Joseph was forced to travel. Mary, as round as a ladybug, bounced… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are designers there, we have to think of production, but I am not changing Africa. But if we all do something… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image