Happening Quotes

#1. Marriage was always the happening end, not the beginning.

Gloria Steinem

#2. I can't run my own race. I'm constantly checking what's happening in the other lanes.

Laura Buzo

#3. Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time.

Julian Barnes

#4. Something is always happening somewhere.

Mitch Albom

#5. It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Tim Winton

#6. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.

Douglas Adams

#7. I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

Sonny Rollins

#8. Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

Joan Rivers

#9. Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.

J.G. Ballard

#11. You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

Marie Osmond

#12. I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.

Jeff Corwin

#13. The miraculous is always happening, even though we forget it or even when our faith is too small to trust God for miracles or even when we don't see the miracles occurring. God is always still at work, and God will always provide for us.

Louie Giglio

#14. The happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#15. I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.

Ishmael Reed

#16. I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

Debi Mazar

#17. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We

Merlin R. Carothers

#18. Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.

Gerhard Richter

#19. Enjoy it. Because it's happening.

Stephen Chbosky

#20. I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

George Best

#21. There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Mavis Staples

#22. It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.

Matt Taibbi

#23. The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

George W. Bush

#24. I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.

Ariana Madix

#25. The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game.

Jerry Rice

#26. In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.

Eli Pariser

#27. In what was happening now there was still that element of popular frenzy; but it was also clear that it was more organized, or that at least it had some deeper principle.

V.S. Naipaul

#28. All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge 'Knows' it too.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.

Amalia Kahana-Carmon

#30. It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.

Henri Poincare

#31. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

Barack Obama

#32. When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'

Garrett Hedlund

#33. It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.

Ken Wilber

#34. As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

Chris Evans

#35. Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening.

A-Trak

#36. Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

Rick Warren

#37. I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#38. It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

Don DeLillo

#39. There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever.

Susane Colasanti

#40. I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

Imtiaz Ali

#41. The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

James Hutton

#42. Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#43. The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

Reed Hastings

#44. There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for.

Cameron Diaz

#45. Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Campbell Newman

#46. I'm fairly certain I'm having my first truly religious experience, and it's probably a very bad thing that it's happening in a church, but it's over a sculpture. Mental note: Add idol worship to your list for confession.

Lisa Desrochers

#47. Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Robert Fripp

#48. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Edward Snowden

#49. I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Enya

#50. When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.

Erin McKeown

#51. I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

Ray Liotta

#52. It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Jonathan Franzen

#53. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#54. Did you ever think it could be like this? The way we're happening to each other?

Paula McLain

#55. I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

David Lynch

#56. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

Jeff Bezos

#57. I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all.

Mark Steyn

#58. Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#59. I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

Alexander Koch

#60. You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.

Charlie Munger

#61. What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.

Art Spiegelman

#62. America is going to start happening outside of the parties.

Jeff Sharlet

#63. If it was your fault, then you weren't powerless
you weren't at the mercy of stuff just happening."
"Your always going to be at thee mercy of stuff just happening, no matter what.

Ann Packer

#64. Something different was happening to William alright, as if Winkleberry wasn't different enough.

S.Z. Berg

#65. I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a
certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and
somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have
done.

Jack Ruby

#66. When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

Stella Maeve

#67. People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

Charles Stross

#68. There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Pat Metheny

#69. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

Patrick Stump

#70. People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.

Noam Chomsky

#71. I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

William J. Clinton

#72. When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.

Susan Blackmore

#73. I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.

Dries Van Noten

#74. Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#75. Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

Nenia Campbell

#76. If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Aaron Levie

#77. There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

Thalia

#78. I think about you all the time. I can't stop."
Shaking my head, I ran my palm over my wet face. This couldn't be happening to me. I would not allow it. I knew better.
"Addison, it's natural to form attachments to your teachers."
"Is it natural to picture them fucking you?

Ella Frank

#79. Novikov self-consistency principle, which states that any event that would cause a paradox has a zero probability of happening.

John McWilliams

#80. You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Lauren Bacall

#81. People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Kate Winslet

#82. You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

Dave Chappelle

#83. The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

Zoe Lofgren

#84. My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there ... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#85. Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Jose Padilha

#86. I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

Gayle Forman

#87. When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.

Gil Fronsdal

#88. We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.

Bruce Lipton

#89. I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Tim O'Brien

#90. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Eva Hoffman

#91. I hated the blog hype and how fast everything was happening. It didn't feel natural to me. But at the same time, what's more natural than thousands of people sharing your music because they just really like it?

Michael Angelakos

#92. When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

Bryan Kest

#93. I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Helen Reddy

#94. When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

Krysten Ritter

#95. It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions ... If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

John Maynard Keynes

#96. When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.

Moshe Kasher

#97. Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup

Gertrude Stein

#98. Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word "happiness" was
derived from the same root "hap", similar to the word "happening." Depending on what's happening in our lives, we're either happy or sad. It's based on pure luck and good fortune.

Dana Arcuri

#99. If you are at all successful in your business, be prepared to never have another good day or bad day at work. There will be so many things - good and bad - happening on any given day that you will be on a roller coaster of highs and lows. If that excites you, then go for it.

Tom Szaky

#100. I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

Jeremy Renner