A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
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One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is… — Kenneth W. Ford Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that… — James Levine Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . .… — Jean Fleming 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
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once…… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The two Olympic weightlifting events are the snatch and the clean and jerk. So 90% of the time, you're practicing the snatch… — Mat Fraser Copy Share Image
Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
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Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events.… — Michael De Luca Copy Share Image
I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to… — Kirk Kerkorian Copy Share Image
Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
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I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the… — William James Copy Share Image