I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down.… — Sonia Braga 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
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us… — Bob Tyrrell Copy Share Image
The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book.… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I believe that music can encourage you to move on from painful events. It helps to make a scar fade. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make… — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I've always felt socially awkward and you can cover it up with a veneer to some degree and the formality of a… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image