“I often get asked by people 'Is your Twitter real?' and things of that nature. I'm never sure how to respond to that. My Twitter account is completely 'real' in that everything I tweet is something I have earnestly thought or something that has actually happened to me.” PeopleRealHappenedAccountsTweet Author:Mira Gonzalez
“The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.” TryingPersonsDoeBookMomentsStoriesSeemsRealizingPerfectCasesHappenedCenturyGrewOrdinaryAccountsRegardCleverNakedAdamStoryteller20th CenturyGenesisModernismAdam And EveAllegoryFigsBook Of GenesisClever Person Author:Philip Pullman
“Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.” WellsHappensDiesJesusHappenedAccountsResurrectionAscension Author:Richard Dawkins
“Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in.” LooksCountryFactsGovernmentEffortHappenedProgramAccountsLandscapeTortureInternalsReviewsSenateFrighteningCia Author:Laura Poitras
“We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.” IfsHumansAbleEnergyQualityFailingHappenedTerribleAccountsDenyCriminalsCharacteristicsTerrible Things Author:Volker Ullrich
“If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.” PeopleIfsMenWritingFirstsBigsVoiceWhiteInterestingHappenedAccountsHistoricalEstablishmentNonfictionWhite ManReally InterestingUmbrella Author:Isabel Allende
“So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.” PeopleRealInterestingMorningHappenedChangedCoupleTerribleAccountsExplanationShockSubtleArcsWednesdayWednesday Morning Author:Cass Sunstein
“We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.” BigsHappenedMysteryAccountsRemainsDescriptionCosmicBangs Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“One of the biggest challenges for us is that people have different accounts. People say different things happened at different times, and when you're trying to sort through all that, how do you decide what's right?” PeopleTryingDifferentChallengesHappenedAccountsThings HappenDifferent ThingsDifferent Times Author:Andrew Aydin
“I have met with women who toward the end of their pregnancy get the worst news one could get, that their health is in jeopardy if they continue to carry to term or that something terrible has happened or just been discovered about the pregnancy. I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions. So you can regulate if you are doing so with the life and the health of the mother taken into account.” IfsThinkingShouldEndsStatesGovernmentMotherTermDecisionUnitedUnited StatesTakenHappenedWorstTerribleMetsNewsAccountsPregnancyState GovernmentJeopardyUnited States Government Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveMeanStuffReligiousHappenedAccountsMiracleMissionsExplanationDenying God Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.” LooksHardHappensLawHappenedSecurityInternetAccountsCome UpConclusionFirmLaw Firms Author:Anthony Weiner
“He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.” PeopleMadeI CanTogetherLyingBitsCan DoRealizingWonderHappenedAccountsWake UpHorribleDestroyedAwakeSatShockWakingMixturesWoven Author:Philip K. Dick
“The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.” YearsImportantIdeasWholeLastsScienceFourHappenedAccountsImportanceExcitingChineseExcitementGraduatesEngineers Author:Bill Gates