...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
In the Navy, I was introduced to the modeling world and something I never thought I would do in a million years.… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were… — Richard Land Copy Share Image
The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Westlemania is the Superbowl but each PPV is equally important. The big four (WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series) are always… — John Cena Copy Share Image
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events. — Steven Popkes Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money… — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event,… — Mike Tirico Copy Share Image
I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death. — James May Copy Share Image
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd. — John Hagel III Copy Share Image
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won. — L. W Rogers Copy Share Image
What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their… — Steve House Copy Share Image
It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image