Chance meeting Quote by Dan Brown

“Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially…

— Jeffrey Archer

“The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea…

— Mary Doria Russell

“To say what happened, the mere facts, the disposition of events in time, would come to seem like a kind of treachery. The dominoes…

— Kevin Powers

“The historic moment is always simple and brief: it belongs to one man and one will alone, without possibility (if it be truly ripe)…

— William Bolitho

“For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement…

— Sebastian Barry

“The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commotions cannot excuse any failure of inward resolve, even if…

— Neal A. Maxwell

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very status as…

— Dan Chiasson

“For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.”

— Antony John

“Yes, it struck her now that this whole business of the bull was like a life; the important birth, the fair chance, the tentative,…

— Malcolm Lowry

“from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.”

— Khaled Hosseini