Top 100 Quotes About Happens
#1. Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass
#2. "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
Charles Dickens
#3. Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
Carolina Herrera
#4. When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.
John Steinbeck
#5. Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.
Joanna Macy
#6. Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.
Melody Beattie
#7. Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
LZ Granderson
#8. As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.
Andrew Schneider
#9. What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
Sean Penn
#10. Rylie," he said gently. "I love you. I've loved you since I understood what the word meant. I love who you are now, who you were then. And I'm gonna love you no matter what happens tomorrow, or next week, or next year.
J.B. Hartnett
#11. You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
Karen Salmansohn
#12. Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.
Amit Ray
#13. This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something which will certainly be terrible, and nothing happens and nothing continues to happen.
Primo Levi
#14. I have begun to wonder what actually happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?
Siri Hustvedt
#15. We [human beings] are what happens when smart monkeys fuck.
Corey Taylor
#16. If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I'm a firm believer that where there's a will, there's a way.
Eric Davis
#17. The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.
Matthew Donnelly
#18. Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.
Mercedes Lackey
#19. Today only happens once in a lifetime. Make the most of it.
Michael Ray
#20. If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
E.L. Doctorow
#21. What happens to a man who just won't cooperate?"
"Well, he moves on. The others get tired of him, you know. They make fun of him, or they get rough with him, beat him up ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart ...
Ken Keyes Jr.
#23. I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
Rachel Dratch
#24. Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
Ella Baker
#25. I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.
Michael Longley
#26. A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.
Esther Hicks
#28. Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee
#29. Success isn't something that happens to you; you happen to it.
Ivanka Trump
#30. [T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering
not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?
Melissa Senate
#31. What happens if I try to run?" I ask as the doors close. (jace)
"I'll stop you." (charlie)
"You don't look too quick." (jace)
"You'd be surprised." (charlie)
"I hate surprises." (jace)
"Then don't run. (charlie)
D.D. Barant
#32. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?
Richard Siken
#33. Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy present conduct directed to social good, and thy present disposition of contentment with everything which happens- that is enough. Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power. Among
Marcus Aurelius
#34. Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
#35. Never look back at your past, everything happens for a reason, keep your head up and look forward. the more you look back the more beautiful things you will miss in life.
Brandon Smith
#36. I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.
Robert Falcon Scott
#37. If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.
Jonathan Carroll
#38. I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
Dolly Parton
#39. I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.
Ester Dean
#40. Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched ...
J.K. Rowling
#41. Reed, I should've protected myself against you, but I didn't and now you live here, inside of me," I say, pointing to my heart. "I won't ever be able to run from the love I have for you. Your name is written on my heart. I can't hide from it and it will wreck me if something happens to you -
Amy A. Bartol
#42. Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
Brandon Lee
#43. There's this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know what happens to your character or if you want to experience it episode by episode. In the theatre, we always know the ending; we always know where the character is going.
Carrie Coon
#44. Only a fool unleashes the storm winds of fear, Ralf. Since no man has the power to direct how they may blow, they could just as easily destroy those who hope most to benefit from them, although the innocent always suffer long before that happens.
Priscilla Royal
#45. You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
William, Saroyan
#46. He's got gas," Aaron explained, his voice muffled by the hand still over his face. "It happens when he eats stuff he's not supposed to."
"It's vile," Camael said, glaring at the dog. "Something should be done so that it never happens again.
Thomas E. Sniegoski
#47. I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.
Freddy Adu
#48. If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
Tamora Pierce
#49. Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you.
Stephen Kinzer
#50. When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams
#51. You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it
Dean Koontz
#52. Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk
#53. I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.
Anthony Hopkins
#54. Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.
Tom Vanderbilt
#55. Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can't do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.
Caroline Kennedy
#56. Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
C.S. Lewis
#57. The next aspect of the mystical feeling is even more difficult to assimilate into our ordinary practical intelligence. It is the overwhelming sense that everything that happens - everything that I or anybody else has ever done - is part of a harmonious design and that there is no error at all.
Alan W. Watts
#58. We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.
Michael Bloomberg
#59. I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love ... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful ...
Taylor Swift
#60. Nothing happens by chance no one goes on a quest without a reason without the pull of the magnet there is no action.
Rumi
#61. There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.
Jeff Ament
#62. Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.
Ann Aguirre
#63. Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
Walter Kirn
#64. I'm saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal - assuming that ever happens - I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I'm done walking away from things I want just because they don't come easily. You're worth the work.
Rachel Vincent
#65. But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?
I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.
He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.
We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.
Agatha Christie
#66. I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
Hunter S. Thompson
#67. Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.
Debbie Ford
#68. For you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#69. Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.
Wendy Wunder
#70. It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.
Alberto Cairo
#71. What happens when all we have in common are the scars on our wrists?
Caroline Greyling
#72. No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens ... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
Guy Debord
#73. It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)
John Irving
#74. We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
Michael Crichton
#75. You don't always choose who you love, sometimes it just happens.
Lauren Dane
#76. You're a liar!"
He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, a cheat, and a murdered. But this happens to be one of the rare times when I'm telling the truth. Go home. Consider yourself lucky. You've got a chance to start fresh. Not everyone can say the same.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#77. Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#78. Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're
no good.
Barbara Kingsolver
#79. We need to learn ... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
Tony Judt
#80. My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that's the reason they go off the deep end.
Joseph Mazzello
#82. Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.
Rick Riordan
#83. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.
Mandy Hale
#84. Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#85. Shit happens. But so does magic." ~ Celia Wird, SEALED WITH A CURSE: A Weird Girls Novel
Cecy Robson
#86. Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
Geneen Roth
#87. Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.
Rob Manuel
#88. "Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.
Neil Gaiman
#89. Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.
Lee Krasner
#90. Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah.
LaVell Edwards
#91. Be mindful that hurt happens but so does healing. Learn from those not so good times and embrace the greatness to come.
Alexandra Elle
#92. You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
John Guare
#93. And at this point, do you think a give a fuck anymore? I looked out for me and only me for years, and then you came along. You made me feel things. And when I laid here after I came back from seeing you beat up and broken because of me, I stopped caring what happens to me.
Emily Snow
#94. People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.
Guy De Rothschild
#95. What we want and what happens are two different thing entirely.
Kirsty Moseley
#96. This is life. This is what happens when you stop living in the moment. People grow up. They change, they move on, and you find yourself wishing you had looked up in time to walk with them.
Claire Contreras
#97. We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.
Edward T. Hall
#98. You're in a fairy tale right now, Tania, but what happens on the morning after happy ever after?
Allan Frewin Jones
#99. What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.
Rachel Kushner
#100. You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone.
When Marchent died, she was alone.
Anne Rice
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