Top 100 It Will Not Happen Again Quotes
#1. I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life, and I have let my annoyance drive that duty from my mind. It will not happen again.
Robin LaFevers
#2. Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.
James Salter
#3. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
Lucinda Williams
#4. MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.
Megan Alexander
#5. You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
LeBron James
#6. I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.
Thelma Houston
#7. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
Shane Claiborne
#8. For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn't happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.
Neal McDonough
#9. I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.
George Saunders
#10. There's never any warning that something extraordinary is about to happen, is there?
Eva Rice
#11. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.
Ozzy Osbourne
#12. I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
Mike Peters
#13. U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.
Apolo Ohno
#14. I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.
Tracey Gold
#15. Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Phil Cooke
#16. Be aware, then, that every human condition is subject to change, and that whatever mishap can befall any man can also happen to you.
Seneca.
#17. But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.
Haruki Murakami
#18. If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.
Primo Levi
#19. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#20. Bad things happen when angry people grieve.
Bethany-Kris
#21. I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.
Nina LaCour
#22. I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#23. The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I couldn't wait to see what would happen if I added orange juice to it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.
Issey Miyake
#26. Dreams don't "come true". Dreams get "made true". You have the power to get up, execute and make beautiful results happen, day by valuable day.
Robin Sharma
#27. If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen ... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.
Will Smith
#28. A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.
Ari Marcopoulos
#29. Object-oriented programming had boldly promised "to model the world." Well, the world is a scary place where bad things happen for no apparent reason, and in this narrow sense I concede that OO does model the world.
Dave Fancher
#30. If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Ron Livingston
#31. So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing ... And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.
Rupert Grint
#32. 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
#33. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#34. I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!
Eric Thomas
#35. A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.
Harry Markopolos
#36. When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen
Jesse Andrews
#37. When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new poems. I re-read the new poems in my folder in the hope that this might happen.
Michael Longley
#38. Life in fear is the worse tragedy that can happen to a man
Sunday Adelaja
#39. With God beside us every moment of the day, we are safe - even when bad things happen, even when God's timing is not our timing. He is our refuge.
Darlene Zschech
#40. If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.'It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when.
Jean Rhys
#41. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#42. Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us.
Alexandra Petri
#43. It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll never know how sorry I am for letting you slip through my fingers. But it won't happen again because I'm never letting you go. Ever
Georgia Cates
#44. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.
Shelley Jackson
#45. What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play ... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.
Charles Barkley
#46. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Neil Patrick Harris
#47. I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
Buzz Aldrin
#48. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it ... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.
Robert A. Heinlein
#49. I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#50. It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here"
that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.
John Wyndham
#51. The Internet, and the computers that made it possible, came from a rather dark place, much more missile than ballet, and they might yet return there. This book is about how and why that could happen, and what might be done about it.
Scott Malcomson
#52. 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
#53. My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.
Morrissey
#54. Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.
Charles Darwin
#55. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#56. But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
George Washington
#57. I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.
Mindy Kaling
#58. Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I'm like, 'How did this happen?' I've gone through some of the craziest life experiences because of YouTube.
Lilly Singh
#60. Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...
Paul Bowles
#61. I really thought I couldn't be a mum. We had tried several times with IVF,, and it hadn't worked and we'd given up in a way. We both thought, 'You know what, that's that. It's not going to happen - let's move on.'
Gurinder Chadha
#62. I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse - to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.
Tracy Chevalier
#63. I wouldn't have taken him. Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of it. [ ... ] It's not going to be totally smooth things will happen.
Tony Dungy
#64. Another coupon tacked onto the pile I'll redeem when I get some power in my fucken life. Look around this life and all you see is folks' coupons tacked everywhere, what they'll do if, what they'll do when. Warm anticipation for shit that ain't even going to happen.
D.B.C. Pierre
#65. That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.
Joe
#66. I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
Charles Dickens
#67. I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.
Ben Affleck
#68. When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
A.A. Milne
#69. I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.
Chris Gethard
#70. For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.
Kristin Hannah
#71. I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
Heidi Klum
#72. You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.
Gavin Lyall
#73. 23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 24 God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.
Anonymous
#74. If you fall down, get up and walk again.
If you can't walk, crawl.
If that idea fails, have another one
It doesn't happen by accident.
It takes a lot of hard work.
Dick Clark
#75. there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#76. It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account for everything that's happened. It's nice to think the world makes sense. It's nice to think that you make sense. But sometimes things just happen.
Kirsty Logan
#77. Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc - where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.
Amanda Ripley
#78. Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen is that you actually aren't disseminating the information that you want to get across to these people.
Drew Barrymore
#79. There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White
#80. The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
John Hume
#81. The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
John Steinbeck
#82. It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.
Michael Keaton
#83. Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the same thing must happen. This is simply not true, it is not a fundamental condition of science.
Richard Feynman
#84. You make life when you play," I said. "You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.
Anne Rice
#85. Not so long ago I'd been convinced that losing my voice was the worst thing that could ever happen to me, the worst tragedy. But since then I'd been losing my whole self, everything I stood for, believed in, felt. Everything I ever wanted to be. Everything I ever was.
Sarah Ockler
#86. I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.
Billie Piper
#87. A lot of your problem was in your head. You see yourself screwing up, it's going to happen.
Joyce Maynard
#88. Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
Kathy Mattea
#89. None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
Nicholas Sparks
#90. Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation.
Jack Canfield
#91. Lesson learned: bad things happen to good people.
Amy Zhang
#92. Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.
Peter Drucker
#93. Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.
Vinita Kinra
#94. I knew perfectly well at the time, as I had for years and years, that the Lord absolutely transcends any understanding I have of Him, which makes loyalty to Him a different thing from loyalty to whatever customs and doctrines and memories I happen to associate with Him.
Marilynne Robinson
#95. Chubs is useful," I reminded her. "Please try not to kill him."
"Yeah, yeah we'll see. All I'm saying is, accidents happen.
Alexandra Bracken
#96. Don't listen to what people tell you because they'll try to bring you down. And don't listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.
Chris Colfer
#97. If I happen to come across a garden these days, I burst into bloom.
Rabih Alameddine
#98. I wonder what would happen if the South had a 'Be Kind to the Niggers Week'?
Harper Lee
#99. As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
Paul Auster
#100. Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.
Fuzzy Zoeller
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