Time for the year end lists to start rolling in. Time magazine has gone ahead and tried to record those moments this year when something was said that shattered our world.

“We got him.” —President Obama, in the White House Situation Room, after learning that SEAL Team 6 had located and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1

“They had to know.” —Bernie Madoff, imprisoned Ponzi schemer, insisting that banks and hedge funds were “complicit” in his fraud, which cost investors some $50 billion

“They love me … They will die to protect me, my people.” —Muammar Gaddafi, in March, denying any resistance against his 42-year rule of Libya, just seven months before he was captured and killed in his hometown of Sirt

“I’m on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die.” —Charlie Sheen, in an interview with ABC News, insisting he was not on drugs or alcohol during his weeks-long public meltdown that cost him his job on the TV show Two and a Half Men

“It has been a really tough weekend.” —Harold Camping, doomsday prophet and retired president of Family Radio, two days after the Rapture failed to occur on May 21; Camping’s other prediction on Oct. 21 did not pan out either

See the rest of the list over at TIME.

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