We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. ~By Kenneth Burke ~
I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ~By Hans Frank ~
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ~By John Thorn ~
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ~By Cleopatra ~
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. ~By Wilson Mizner ~
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ~By John Desmond Bernal ~
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. ~By Tom Brokaw ~
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~By Marcel Proust ~
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly. ~By Harry Reasoner ~
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. ~By Barbara Kruger ~
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ~By Anne Tyler ~
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games. ~By Shannon Miller ~
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. ~By Walter Lord ~
We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ. ~By Hal Lindsey ~
I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people. ~By Rupert Everett ~
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~By Jean Cocteau ~
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. ~By Max Cannon ~
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ~By Sidney Altman ~
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once. ~By Horace Smith ~
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. ~By Diane Wakoski ~
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. ~By Tim Holden ~
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. ~By Tony Robbins ~
I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler. ~By Wilford Brimley ~
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. ~By Richard Bach ~
I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up. ~By Kato Kaelin ~
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again. ~By David Blunkett ~
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. ~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past. ~By Matthew Simpson ~
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ~By Peter Cooper ~
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. ~By Lanford Wilson ~
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. ~By Sri Chinmoy ~
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. ~By Harold Brodkey ~
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. ~By A. R. Ammons ~
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book. ~By Mercedes Lackey ~
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health. ~By Lois Capps ~
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. ~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. ~By Thomas Menino ~
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible. ~By Dustin Hoffman ~
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world. ~By Esther Williams ~
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. ~By Thomas Hardy ~
Headlines twice the size of the events. ~By John Galsworthy ~
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. ~By Enya ~
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events. ~By Cat Stevens ~
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. ~By Thomas Szasz ~
I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France. ~By John Tesh ~
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. ~By Barbara Sher ~
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. ~By Walther Bothe ~
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ~By George Santayana ~
I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work. ~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it. ~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. ~By Doug Coupland ~
History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ~By Cotton Mather ~
We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before. ~By Jane D. Hull ~
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way. ~By Jacques Delors ~
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ~By Edward Levi ~
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. ~By Robert Smithson ~
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events. ~By Eliza Dushku ~
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you. ~By Norman Reilly Raine ~
Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ~By Gustav Stresemann ~
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. ~By Georg Simmel ~
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century. ~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. ~By Josh McDowell ~
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. ~By Jefferson Davis ~
I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. ~By Bob Graham ~
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. ~By Charlotte Mary Yonge ~
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. ~By Richard Cobden ~
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. ~By Harry Browne ~
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world. ~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. ~By William James ~
I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. ~By Enya ~
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. ~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles. ~By Richard Burton ~
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins. ~By V. S. Naipaul ~
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. ~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story. ~By Chester Brown ~
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. ~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. ~By Mary Lou Retton ~
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. ~By Samuel Adams ~
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.' ~By Mitch Daniels ~
A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household. ~By Anthea Turner ~
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events. ~By Will McDonough ~
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. ~By Dorothee Solle ~
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. ~By Fran Drescher ~
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. ~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. ~By Sergio Aragones ~
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ~By Ethel Waters ~
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. ~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. ~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. ~By John Burns ~
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ~By Anatole France ~
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. ~By Mason Cooley ~
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor. ~By Alanis Morissette ~
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us. ~By Theodor Herzl ~
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. ~By Kathleen Parker ~
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. ~By Will Durant ~
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