Top 100 Happen Quotes
#1. However, it still seriously pisses me off that we live in a world where you can't be free to express yourself in whatever strange way you happen to choose.
L. H. Cosway
#2. Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Bear Grylls
#3. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.
Jeffrey Meyers
#4. No I just feel a little dizzy. You know, like when you try to read the newspaper in the car and all the lines start waving around and go blurry?"
"That doesn't happen to me"
"Oh.
Catherine Clark
#5. Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing.
Debasish Mridha
#6. I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.
Joseph J. Lhota
#7. You can't live for a moment that may not happen. You need to live in the moment.
Jake Roberts
#9. Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.
Marisa De Los Santos
#10. Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary - and she herself - might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing would not happen. It hurt, but the truth often does.
Tracy Chevalier
#11. The government announced that never again will this country allow such a 'lapse in humanity to poison us and strip people of their basic human rights.' Everybody looks back and wonders how we allowed it to happen in the first place. It all seems so simple now.
Cecelia Ahern
#12. There is always a part
of my mind that is
preparing for the worst,
and another part of my
mind that believes if I
prepare enough for it, the worst won't
happen.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#13. We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.
Desmond Tutu
#14. It is beautiful when the Master chisels. God doesn't allow the unglued moments of our lives to happen so we'll label ourselves and stay stuck. He allows the unglued moments to make us aware of the chiseling that needs to be done.
Lysa TerKeurst
#15. At my audition, I had one of those anxiety visions where you do something totally crazy in your mind, just to torture yourself with the possibility, just to wonder what would happen if you actually did it.
Rachel DeWoskin
#16. Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.
Barbara Kingsolver
#17. Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.
Gerry Cooney
#18. He knew what would happen. He has laid wagers with himself, I imagine, for days: how many hours, how many miles towards safety before he has to drop out.
Dorothy Dunnett
#19. Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.
Richard M. Nixon
#20. What bothered Ruth was that she needed to be with Rooie again -- just to see, as in a story, what would happen next. That meant Rooie was in charge.
John Irving
#21. Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J.L. Austin
#22. A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
Jason Katims
#23. I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
James A. Baldwin
#24. I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
Michael Longley
#25. It is an obvious fact that you can never look ahead with clarity at your own future or anybody else's. You can't know what will happen until it happens. Or maybe it dawns on you the split second before, when you get a glimpse of your own fate.
Amanda Lindhout
#26. I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.
Arthur Ganson
#27. I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.
Vincent Kartheiser
#28. I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not,
Kaka
#29. I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
Taylor Swift
#30. Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
Arlen Specter
#31. I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.
George Jones
#32. I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.
Demetri Martin
#33. Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.
Ravi Kant
#34. Her mother paused for a moment before hanging up the phone. "Watch your back, dear. Every family needs a black sheep. It would be an awful lot of trouble for us to come up with another one, should something happen to you.
Deborah Blake
#35. I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'
Christine Quinn
#36. Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That's all it is. I didn't have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I'm from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.
French Montana
#37. Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations.
Pearl Zhu
#38. The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
John Lithgow
#39. You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.
Brandon Sanderson
#40. ...[H]e's so good and good people are usually happy. But do happy things happen to the good, or can the good make happiness out of unhappiness?
Dodie Smith
#41. I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.
Joe Arpaio
#42. I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
Stevie Wonder
#43. I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said I'll just print another ten.
Eric Sykes
#44. Then as now, someone who's high on marijuana or hashish is only a threat to your safety if you happen to be a Dorito.
Kyle Williams
#45. 'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.
Wesley Morris
#46. Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
John Le Carre
#47. I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.
Miley Cyrus
#48. Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
Taylor Swift
#49. We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be-loud and clear-there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.
Diane Wilson
#50. No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.
Terry Bradshaw
#51. There was a man.
And it happened
as such things often so happen
that this man we went back into his days that were gone. Again and again and again he went back. Even as every man, even as you and I, so this man went back into his Yesterdays.
Harold Bell Wright
#52. It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.
Eduardo Perez
#53. Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#54. I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology ... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.
Colin Powell
#55. It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#56. In Nightly Dreams our most Wonders Happen in Daily Life we Must Create the Miracles Ourselves.
Jan Jansen
#57. Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
Albert Hofmann
#58. I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
Kevin Costner
#59. Hypothetically speaking let's say you were dreaming, what would happen next?
Monique Snyman
#60. I'm going to continue keeping an eye on him, Becca said. If he does anything shady, I'll report back. I swear I won't let anything bad happen to you if I can help it.
He nodded as he collected the copper box and began to follow after Barnabas. The feeling is entirely mutual, Becca Hatcher.
Morgan Rhodes
#61. The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.
Aaron Koblin
#62. When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.
A.A. Milne
#63. I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
Steve Jobs
#64. Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
Andrew Holleran
#66. There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.
Joanna Macy
#67. The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.
Ousmane Sembene
#68. Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.
Rainbow Rowell
#69. The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'
Cate Blanchett
#70. We need to prepare for the inevitable collapse that's going to happen. Yes, I say that as a politician on stage. It's going to happen. We should look it at as an opportunity, not as something to be afraid of.
Matt Shea
#71. Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.
J. Michael Straczynski
#72. Because sometimes, even when you see someone headed for a collision, all you can do is step out of the way and let it happen, hoping there will be something left to salvage after the wreckage is cleared.
Mandy Hale
#73. The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you're refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.
Mark Zuckerberg
#74. Do you happen to have a pocket mirror?
"I'm afraid not. Why?"
"I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly.
Lisa Kleypas
#75. If you're going to fall out of love with public approval, something interesting will happen: people will be deeply attracted to your work.
Jeff Goins
#76. Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.
Willa Gibbs
#77. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!
Michael Fassbender
#78. Of all the things she thought might happen when she came here, this wasn't one. To be shot like this. Tears came into her eyes. She closed them, laid her head down on the grass and in a few moments her tears were the only part of her moving
Charlie Higson
#79. People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
John Lasseter
#80. There are just lots of possibilities in the world ... I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
Rachel Cohn
#81. A greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.
Charles James Fox
#82. I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.
Scott Lynch
#83. Looking for a great teacher who can tell you what will happen in the future? Ask the ancient ruins what will happen!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.
Charles Baudelaire
#85. The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to.
Charles Yu
#86. We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.
Richard Branson
#87. Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.
Donna Farhi
#88. I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.
Makoto Shinkai
#89. What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.
George Orwell
#90. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us
when they do.
Janette Oke
#91. The interlude before anything begins is always my favorite moment. So much unknown, but everything is already set up and we both know something is going to happen--but we just don't know how or when yet.
Jessica Pan
#92. some things are so awful, you can't look them square in the face and some things make no sense no matter what angle you look at them from. and of course they happen in other people's lives, never in your own.
Mike McCormack
#93. Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.
Giuliana Rancic
#94. The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources ... The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.
David Deming
#95. There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
Carrie Brownstein
#96. It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.
Joyce Rachelle
#97. I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.
Glen Duncan
#98. It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
Sachin Tendulkar
#99. Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.
Joel Osteen
#100. I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.
Zoe Kravitz
