As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it,… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense… — Elroy Dimson 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
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 number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Movember is an event that I've supported for a number of years. I haven't grown a moustache myself before, but I've always… — James Magnussen Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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
My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and… — Joyelle McSweeney 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
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
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
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
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
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters… — Lucinda Coxon Copy Share Image
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities)… — Amy Trask Copy Share Image
London 'Harry Potter' premieres are very special events: There is this sense of love and ownership and pride, and it's just palpable.… — Michael Goldenberg Copy Share Image
We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The research on vision machines was mainly conducted at the Stanford Research Institute in the US. So, we can say that the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
When I won gold medals in both the 200m and 400m events at the 1958 Asian Games, the then chief of army… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image