Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X-… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us. — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful,"… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence… From the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Circumstances can have a motive force by which they bring about events without aid of human imagination or apprehension. On such occasions… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
I focus more on bars and beam just because those are my strongest events, and I just try and maintain whatever I… — Sunisa Lee Copy Share Image
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me? — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and… — Roselyn Sanchez Copy Share Image
Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience. — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events.… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah. — Luke Donald Copy Share Image
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image