Great Happenings Quotes

#1. The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

Orison Swett Marden

#2. I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.

Mike Newell

#3. The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.

Arnold Bennett

#4. If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#5. As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!

Heather Whitestone

#6. All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#7. Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.

Alan Ritchson

#8. Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

Steve Maraboli

#9. Running through the grey-eyed dawn with last night's trash in mind, the brown dog scuttles through fluted gates while birds sing on above the world about a bit of fallen cheese, the shish kebob he ate and all the vagaries of plates

Andre Alexis

#10. MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

David Rockefeller

#11. Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

Agatha Christie

#12. I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

Bea Arthur

#13. My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Edward Carpenter

#15. Rufus ignored him, muttering in the lost tongue of a pre-human civilisation that had worked great sorcerous happenings yet had never invented the vowel.

Jonathan L. Howard

#16. Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Paul Brunton