Top 100 Quotes About Things Happen
#1. You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
Barry Levinson
#2. If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.
Tom Upton
#3. But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.
Jason Schwartzman
#4. I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.
Tracey Gold
#6. God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might
Elmore Leonard
#7. Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.
Ethel Merman
#8. Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
Clayton M Christensen
#9. I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.
Jil Sander
#10. The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that it won't really get better for them.
Allison M. Dickson
#11. Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.
John Addison
#12. A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.
Marco Rubio
#13. I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.
Stephen King
#14. I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn't know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.
Marsha Norman
#15. I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
Penelope Lively
#16. When bad things happen to men we say it's terrible, but when bad things happen to women we say that's just a cultural practice, says Lou de Baca, U.S. Ambassador at Large, Office to Combat and Monitor Human Trafficking.
Nita Belles
#17. Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.
Seth Klarman
#18. Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.
Hanif Kureishi
#19. We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.
Thomas Keller
#20. I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.
Tony Dungy
#21. You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
Peter Diamandis
#22. Good things happen. sometimes when you least expect them
Jojo Moyes
#23. Good things happen to those who dress well.
Hadley Davis
#24. I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out.
Seth Green
#25. So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes.
David Mitchell
#26. I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.
Ilona Andrews
#27. I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.
Kristen D. Randle
#28. Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.
Dave Ulrich
#29. There's no comprehending why things happen. People leave you before you're ready for them to go, but you have to keep livin'. That doesn't mean you won't miss them though.
Corinne Michaels
#30. There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Jim Lovell
#32. There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.
Sarah Paulson
#33. Bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.
Richard Dawkins
#34. I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.
Nancy B. Brewer
#35. I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.
Amy Winehouse
#36. I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.
Katy Perry
#37. Wonderful things happen due to positive beliefs and good karma. Change your mind set to earn good karma and to make your life beautiful.
Hina Hashmi
#38. Things happen. To everyone. No one escapes.
Sarah Winman
#39. Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Deepak Chopra
#40. Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths - their talent, skill, and experience.
John C. Maxwell
#41. I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
Kevin Costner
#42. I don't know what would I have done without you in this difficult time for me and indeed, you are right, things happen for a reason and even mistakes help us to be better.
Auliq Ice
#43. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#44. I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
Erykah Badu
#45. The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.
Paul David Tripp
#46. There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.
Irene Hannon
#47. If you spend too much time dreaming, you'll stop actually doing. And when you actually do stuff, there's a good chance things will work out. We make things happen by attacking, not by sitting around dreaming.
Miranda Kenneally
#48. You don't get any five shillings out of me.' 'Oh, all right.' He sat silent for a space. 'Things happen to guys that don't kick in their protection money,' he said dreamily.
P.G. Wodehouse
#49. If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they're little, where all the good things happen, before life starts kicking you in the ass and in the head and every other places.
Beatrice Sparks
#50. This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen; but this world is a terrible place where fortunately many miracles and other wonderful things happen.
C. JoyBell C.
#51. FACTS
Fact #1 Mean people suck.
Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people.
Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.
Susane Colasanti
#52. Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things, and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.
Neil Gaiman
#53. I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.
Helen Oyeyemi
#54. As a young girl, and still to this day, I struggle with trying to figure everything out. Figure out why things happen, what they mean, and how they all work together. It sometimes drives me crazy. Not literally, but I do sometimes feel different. Like maybe I think too much.
J.W. Lord
#55. I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.
Rachel Vincent
#56. Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
Bobby Seale
#57. The theater was empty: nobody had come. Sometimes these things happen, and nobody can say why.
From ""Amandina".
Sergio Ruzzier
#58. Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
Eric Stoltz
#59. Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.
Ursula A. Ciller
#60. I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
Katey Sagal
#61. Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.
R.A. Horn
#62. I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen
Ryan Hall
#63. Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
Theodore Levitt
#64. I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.
Carrie Underwood
#65. Things happen in life and you can't control them. It sucks and you have to move on.
Abbi Glines
#66. To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
Marshall Curry
#67. The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.
Human Angels
#69. One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.
Robert T. Bakker
#70. I do think that it's a challenge for me or for anybody who has had certain iconic things happen to them in their career to re-engage people and say that there's still more to discover. And also to have that confidence in yourself that you still have more to bring.
Joan Osborne
#71. Amazing things happen when we put our minds to it. There is a saying that seeing is believing. But believing is seeing, as well. And touching. And hearing. Connecting.
Ridley Pearson
#72. Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain
Nikhil Kushwaha
#73. Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen
Wendy Milton
#74. No, doctor, I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London.
Agatha Christie
#75. We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.
Jim Yong Kim
#76. When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'
Cal Ripken Jr.
#77. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.
Philippa Gregory
#78. There's no way to know who I would have been if my life had taken a different path. Speculation is a waste of time. Looking back, I finally understand why they happened. I now believe that things happen for a reason. I am exactly where I'm supposed to be at this moment.
A.M. Madden
#79. Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
Annie Leibovitz
#80. Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
David Perlmutter
#81. Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words.
Leo Buscaglia
#82. God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices
exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.
Jim Butcher
#83. I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
Patricia Richardson
#84. Things happen in these kinds of towns that could never happen anywhere else - proud, poor kids make things happen with more heat, and intensity, and attack, than could ever be managed somewhere with pleasant villages or well-tended gardens.
Caitlin Moran
#85. We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art ... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.
Carl Jung
#86. There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters.
Roman Coppola
#87. Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors
Michael Meacher
#88. Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg
#89. When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.
Jeet Aulakh
#90. I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.
Shilpa Shetty
#91. If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.
Richard Branson
#92. Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.
Alan Weisman
#93. People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#94. The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.
Dan Millman
#95. I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.
Rick Pitino
#96. [P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a lie of epic proportion. The scariest, most unexplainable things happen in the bright light of day. And just when you least expect.
Suzanne Palmieri
#97. Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#98. Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.
Ann Leckie
#99. Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.
Devin Hester
#100. But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.
Georgette Heyer
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