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.
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
My memories of events and games are fragmented.
For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.
Our biggest events are the Grand Slams and are always going to be the Grand Slams.
There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Headlines twice the size of the events.
We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
