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
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still,… — Becki Newton Copy Share Image
Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that,… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped… — Chaim Weizmann 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
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses… — Zhuangzi 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
We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton told the FBI 39 times she couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember. Or recall key events concerning… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is… — John Berger Copy Share Image
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are… — Gueorgui Pinkhassov Copy Share Image
Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship… — Dick Devenzio Copy Share Image
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Being in compliance with industry standards is less than 5 percent of what companies need to do to make food safe. Company… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
Being put in this situation, where it's myself, Kyle O'Reilly and a Jay Lethal, I think it's the best main event you… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There are also other areas. For example, culture. This is extremely important. We keep revisiting sport, judo, because I practice it, but… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
