Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We… — Julia Hartz Copy Share Image
Sleep deprivation robs you of mental strength and impairs your ability to deal with stressful events. — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“You must take control of events before they take control of you...If you don't do what you can for yourself, no one… — Suzanne Fisher Staples Copy Share Image
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won. — L. W Rogers Copy Share Image
The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable.… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition… — William Bridges Copy Share Image
A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices.… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon… — Dorothy Kelley Patterson Copy Share Image
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the… — Steven Hatfill Copy Share Image
Major realigning events can reshape coalitions and change how large groups of people view politics, policy, and the parties. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
After being at Vogue' for two years in PR, I decided to bring all events in-house. That's how I became the director… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and… — Colin McRae Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold. — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image