Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history,… — Paul Azinger Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But… — Gennady Timchenko Copy Share Image
“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special,… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I do a fair bit for children's charities. The big ones I support in Liverpool are Zoe's Place Baby Hospice, and Claire… — Robbie Fowler 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
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The articles about my workshops are dripping in derision but if you speak to the people who attended the events, people loved… — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
The role of liquidity in systemic events provides yet another reason why, in the future, a more system wide or macroprudential approach… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events… — Sara Sheridan 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
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will… — Barbara Kopple Copy Share Image
The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least… — Samuel Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life:… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
