“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes.… — Arundhati Roy 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
'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles… — David Shapiro Copy Share Image
Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet… — Horace Copy Share Image
Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2,… — Ermanno Bencivenga 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 first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers,… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event. — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
