Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really,… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way.… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Here in Pennsylvania, we have it all - from top tier sports and events, award-winning restaurants, incredible hikes and state parks, and… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
There are at least two circumstances under which journalists have both a right and an obligation to publish details about a public… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually… — Tim Donaghy Copy Share Image
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder.… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
After [Adolf] Hitler took power, Hoffmann moved to a grander place on the Ebersbergerstrasse. I never saw the first house, I was… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by… — Tom Dunne Copy Share Image
I will have my publicist pull pictures of the way I look at events so I can see, 'Oh, that cut is… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Everything is happening faster on the Internet, so advertisers have to be able to respond quickly. If there is a pop-culture topic,… — Jason Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be… — David Haye Copy Share Image
There should be room in education for schooling to be more responsive to events, more focused on varying interpretations and more able… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in… — Julio Olalla Copy Share Image
Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Americans and British respondents don't want to let the German people off the hook. They make the case that if you get… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather… — Al Gore Copy Share Image