“I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.” FactsCertainKnownEventsAddMysteriousRealizationFixedCollectionsPreciseCommencement Author:Ken Burns
“Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to the show that may be reminiscent of other shows. But, it really is a very new kind of show, in terms of the subject matter and the way it's being dealt with, and the fact that it's about real people and real events.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsKindMayImportantRealMatterFactsShowsCertainSexTermSubjectsEventsMastersElementsAspectToneSubject Matter Author:Michael Sheen
“I think it's really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube.” ThinkingYearsCertainEventsPocketsYoutubeHighlightsReally Popular Author:Felicia Day
“The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.” MayCertainCultureEventsObstaclesAfghanistanEfficientFlexibleHierarchyResponding Author:Ashraf Ghani
“The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.” FirstsMayIdeasFormCertainSoundMemoriesEmotionEventsPeriodsRelationCrisisTitlesThrownStillnessCurvesEvoke Author:Muriel Rukeyser
“It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.” MenHumansMayCertainCausesAbilityOpinionVirtueEventsWillingThousandClaimsFortuneRateAccidentsMeritImaginaryAdvancementScarceConcur Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes.. Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory.” GivingWellsHappensCertainLordPracticeEventsDivineHonorGloryEmbraceTheeIndifferenceConformityContemptReceivingProvidenceReservesAfflictionConsolationAbandonmentReproachDivine Providence Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“Imagine someone telling you that by taking a certain drug you could win a single event and be three times richer, famous for life in your country-and it won't hurt anyone. What would you say? There's a wide range of ethics among the riders.” CountryCertainThreeWinningHurtImagineEventsDrugEthicsWideRangeThree TimesRiders Author:Ned Overend
“And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.” PeopleWholeCertainGroupsMiddleEventsPositionScenePhotographyCriticalDior Author:Raf Simons
“Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.” MadeDifferentSelfHelpingCertainChoicesEventsLessonsTrackFollowingParallelsDifferent Choices Author:Robert Moss
“I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMeanSometimesBigsCertainFallUnderstandingChurchDealsCommonCitiesWonderEventsHappeningsConfusionFrustrationWorking ItRefugeBig DealAlways Working Author:Michael Emerson
“There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.” FirstsStoriesCertainBornOur LivesEventsWalkingAspectStructureSequenceSequencingSequence Of Events Author:Antonio Damasio
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“It was in the nineties. [Bill] Clinton was president. And Clinton was making, you know, the usual Democrat move on guns after some of event, and Wayne LaPierre said, "I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence."” ThinkingKnowsSaidMovingCertainPresidentLevelsViolenceEventsComfortableGunBillsClintonDemocratUsualWayne Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in his life and some of the people he talks about. I had visited the place where he lived many times so I understood innately what that was.” PeopleCertainEventsUnderstoodCheatSheets Author:Andre Holland
“I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.” ThinkingFeelsMayPersonsDifferentSometimesStoriesHappensCertainEventsUniqueAspectSympatheticDifferent Life Author:Chath Piersath