We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong,… — George M. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the… — Diane F. Halpern Copy Share Image
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving Copy Share Image
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Irrespective of the conflict with America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people, and be with them… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside… — Jim Breyer Copy Share Image
Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Everybody when they saw it, they said, "Did Willie Nelson sign your hat?" I'd say, "No, that'd be Willie Knucklehead - Robertson,… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an… — David Gray Copy Share Image
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you… — Brian Tracy 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
By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did.… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to… — James Purnell Copy Share Image
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
