Cases Quote by Harold Evans

“Depending on who you place in the same situation, the characteristics of said incident change kaleidoscopically. In other words, there is one incident. However,…

— Gustav St. Germain

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event

— John Turturro

If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

— Anonymous

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did…

— Thucydides

If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions…

— Micha Bar-Am

“It may be easy to feel detached from happenings not close to us. We are comparatively objective about events and incidents that do not…

— Krishna Murthy Annigeri Vasudeva Rao

“I’m a teacher of history in a high school in Saint Paul and what I know from my studies and from my life is…

— William Kent Krueger

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

— Arthur Eddington

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as…

— H. Rider Haggard

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time…

— Julie Mehretu

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or…

— Amy Tan