Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
The King struggles to work with other countries. It's a warrior's concern, and as current events [demonstrate], the challenges in working with… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
Sometimes storms come through with wind and blow the features off or sometimes they come in heavy and grow the features to… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes… — P. M. H. Atwater Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image,… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
