Top 100 Happening Quotes
#1. As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.
Joe Montana
#2. It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don't see anything happening doesn't mean God is not working
Joel Osteen
#3. If I can't trust my child with what is happening in our home how do I think he or she will ever experience trust?
K.L. Jordaan
#4. What's happening, Dad?" "Shut up and row! Get us away from it!" "Is it a monster, Dad?" "It's worse than a monster, son!" shouted Solid, as the oars bit into the water. The thing was quite high now, standing on some kind of tower ... "What is it, Dad! What is it?" "It's a damned weathercock!
Terry Pratchett
#5. The "unchurching" of the next generation is happening right under our noses, even in the very churches that pride themselves on reaching the unchurched.
Michael S. Horton
#6. motives of people, she was inclined to credit any extraordinary happening attributed to the whimsical perambulations of the buried. The desperate squeakings about the old house on
F Scott Fitzgerald
#7. They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.
Arjuna Ardagh
#8. But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
Pete Townshend
#9. My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.
Torii Hunter
#10. We targeted five industries for growth, industries where we have natural advantages in North Dakota: value-added agriculture, advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses, energy and tourism. We worked very hard to grow all those businesses, and that's what's happening.
John Hoeven
#11. While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly.
Susan Jeffers
#12. What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.
Jay Carney
#13. In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it ... and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.
Grace Llewellyn
#14. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.
Martin Sorrell
#15. Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June.
Craig Benson
#16. Everybody can use more love. Do not take offense if people are rude or unkind or seem like they are trying to hurt your feelings. You cannot know what is happening with them. Send them love no matter how they act. It will come back to you many times over as increased love in your life.
Orin
#17. I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?
Murray Leinster
#18. You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in their conversations of comparing teams or players and then be able to back it up to open his eyes to the history of the league.
Hubie Brown
#19. They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
Nick Lowe
#20. Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
Richard P. Feynman
#21. Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve
Jim Butcher
#22. So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
Benjamin Harkarvy
#23. When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it had nothing to do with you. Remembering, that's what counts.
Brian Moore
#24. I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [ ... ] I do not believe that darkness will endure!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#25. While you're sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You're going soft. You're not aggressive enough. You're not pressing ahead.
Ryan Holiday
#26. Everything that is happening to us today is only the result of all the decisions that we made yesterday.
Sunday Adelaja
#27. How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
David Attenborough
#28. When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Taylor Swift
#29. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.
David Bowie
#30. There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
Linda Leaming
#31. Or it's happening because Shori is black, and racists - probably Ina racists - don't like the idea that a good part of the answer to your daytime problems is melanin.
Octavia E. Butler
#32. In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.
Joe Budden
#33. Before, there had been this small, shiny thing inside her that kept her immune from what was happening, and now she knew it had only been her ignorance, and she felt herself falling into a deep, dark place.
Tatjana Soli
#34. Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware - not only of our own inner workings but also of what's happening around us in the here & now.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
Chris Christie
#36. Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind ... a mutual understanding of each other. I haven't felt this way in forever.
Simone Elkeles
#37. Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
Paul Muldoon
#38. Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.
Brene Brown
#39. From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.
John Prescott
#41. I can't believe this is happening. The ghost stuff he handles without a problem. Discovering I was previously uncharted territory, that's grounds for panic?
Phoenix Emrys
#42. If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
Aaron D. O'Connell
#43. Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
Nicole Kidman
#44. Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.
Matthew Davis
#45. It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Sue Monk Kidd
#46. We all laughed, but what I really felt was a sense of claustrophobia, something that had been happening more and more. It was like the city was getting smaller the longer we were there. It was incestuous, the way everyone knew everything about people.
Jennifer Close
#47. Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life ...
Frederick Buechner
#48. I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.
Carlos Slim
#49. We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
Mara Brock Akil
#50. I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
Alan Alda
#51. Today, like any other day, is totally incomprehensible. It's good to be in a state of wonder and be alive to what's happening.
Art Hochberg
#52. All I know is that if I continue to pitch well, good things will keep happening.
Justin Verlander
#53. Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart ...
Ken Keyes Jr.
#54. My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.
Damien Fahey
#55. You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.
Lupe Fiasco
#56. Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.
Tyra Banks
#57. The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
William Devane
#58. When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.
Dakota Fanning
#59. Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.
Bernie Brillstein
#60. Sometimes you just gotta get in front of the camera because sometimes you have a long break between things, or you're auditioning and maybe nothing's really happening.
Jonathan Lipnicki
#61. Emily saw it in his eyes, the intense way he watched her without fighting what was happening between them. He loved her. She was sure of it.
Katy Regnery
#62. I suck in a breath. This is what it feels like when your life starts happening, I think.
Julie Murphy
#63. It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted.
Liam Neeson
#64. I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
Harriet Walter
#65. The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.
Ruth Glick
#66. The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.
Charles Krauthammer
#68. Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.
Rumi
#69. I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.
Elizabeth Peyton
#70. Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.
Michael Beckwith
#71. There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.
Rainbow Rowell
#72. It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing - helping someone fit in.
Terri Gillespie
#73. They want to live forever but still can't see that for that to work they need to change color and number. But it's already happening.
Yuri Herrera
#74. The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy.
Lawrence Crane
#75. I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
Douglas Coupland
#76. The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
V.S. Naipaul
#77. that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it. The
Roald Dahl
#78. We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.
Martin O'Malley
#79. I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
Richard Eyre
#80. Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
Rainbow Rowell
#81. I am just a ballplayer on vacation. Why are these things happening to me ?
Hal Graff
#82. When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.
Raymond Carver
#83. I'm not sure what's going to happen. Maybe we make it, maybe we don't, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's to appreciate the good when it happens. And having this man accept and want me the way I am right now is a good thing, and it's happening right this second. So I'm gonna enjoy it.
J.A. Huss
#84. Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.
Jordan Klepper
#85. I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#86. A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan
#87. Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.
Alan Cinis
#88. For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.
Elizabeth Bard
#89. A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.
Donald Maass
#90. Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.
Sigmar Gabriel
#91. Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
#92. He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a meal or had a gun stuck to their heads.
Ben Fountain
#93. Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
John Prendergast
#94. A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.
Tom Gjelten
#95. Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.
William McDonough
#96. Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#97. Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.
Sinead O'Connor
#98. The most important thing is not what others are planning against us, but what our reaction is to what is happening
Sunday Adelaja
#99. I'm really fortunate that I am in continuous work and I love what I do. And I think that there's a reason that it keeps happening. So while that keeps happening, I will be thrilled - and feel lucky - to keep doing it.
Rose McIver
#100. The possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear age is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going on behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on that score. Peter Goss
Joel C. Rosenberg
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