Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Barbara Olson

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
Diane Wakoski

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
Steven Hatfill

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Bill Wyman

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Dario Fo

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
Christopher Darden

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.
James D'arcy

The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
Hans Frank

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
Richard Cobden

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
David Brin

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
Anita Diament

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
John Perry Barlow

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.
Lee H. Hamilton

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
John Lothrop Motley

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.
John M. Ford

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
Raymond Queneau

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
Rob Lowe

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.
Harry Reasoner

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
Tim Holden