Top 96 Reason Things Happen Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

John Connolly

#3. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.

Marian Keyes

#4. Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason.

Eddie Cibrian

#5. Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything ... Nothing happens without a reason ... Nothing is impossible ... (Page 180).

Rosamunde Pilcher

#6. Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.

Stephen King

#7. Yes, things happen for a reason, just not any good reason. (from Crystal Ships, publication pending)

Richard G. Sharp

#8. You believe in Destiny, don't you?"
"Yes," said Leah quietly.
"Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine

Jacquelyn Frank

#9. I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

Shellen Lubin

#10. sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It

Marian Keyes

#11. I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.

Isabel Lucas

#12. Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.

Michael P. Naughton

#13. Accept that things happen. It may not be for a reason, and you may have no control over it, but the first step to getting through it is accepting what it is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. I just am a believer ... that there are some things that happen for a reason ... We may not be able to really discern it now ... [but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.

Eric Cantor

#15. I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

Tammara Webber

#16. That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.

Sallust

#17. The right things often happen for the wrong reason.

Alex Adam

#18. Whatever happens this season happens for a reason. But one thing we are sure of is that all things work for us, not against us! Let it come whatever may; by the grace of God, we gonna be victorious!

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

Benazir Bhutto

#20. There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

Shepard Fairey

#21. Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

Joel Brown

#22. People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

Jodi Picoult

#23. Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

Corey Feldman

#25. I have my faith, and that is a strong anchor. I will not stop praying. I believe all things happen for a reason. We may not see it right now, but Londy will be vindicated, and God will work all this out for the best.

Janice Cantore

#26. I don't subscribe much to the belief that things happen for a reason, that there's some higher power at the controls, directing all of us like we're in some cosmic summer stock production. Shit just happens is more or less my philosophy.

Linwood Barclay

#27. Sometimes the greatest things happen when they have no rhyme or reason to. Life and logic might be against them, but great things happen nonetheless.

Jamie Schoffman

#28. He is an abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature through being displeased with the things that happen; for the same nature that produces these things has produced you, too:

Marcus Aurelius

#29. It's the thought of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. All things happen for a reason.

Paulo Coelho

#30. The reason for such an "unreasonable" attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

Carl Jung

#31. I think things happen between people for a reason.

Nora Roberts

#32. Sometimes, God doesn't make things happen at a sudden, but for a reason!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. I make the music as if I was scoring it. I do my best that the sounds will fit the theme of that track, but then there are many other times where it can be random and things happen for no reason, just for fun! A storyline can let me organize changes in the music better, like acts in a play.

DJ QBert

#34. If things happen for a reason, I was meant to get fucked over.

Nina LaCour

#35. All things do happen for a reason ... Is this not the foundation of our faith? You are here-all of us-because we are but part of a plan prepared before the foundations of the earth. It is our humble duty to discern our role in that plan.

Rick Yancey

#36. Why bad things happen to good people

Harold S. Kushner

#37. You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason

Richard Bandler

#38. Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

Idina Menzel

#39. At times it may feel as if we are helpless to what happens to us, and that things happen without rhyme or reason. Rest assured that no matter how choppy the sea gets or how the wind blows, Jesus is on the boat.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#40. They say that things happen for a reason, but I don't know that I buy that. I don't know that I'll ever see a reason for what happened to Kat, Denny, and Teddy that day.

Gayle Forman

#41. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

Davone Bess

#42. When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.

Kristen Stewart

#43. I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Paul Walker

#44. I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

Simon Van Booy

#45. There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

Malcolm Gladwell

#46. You said that you would've taken back that day if you were given a chance. But I ask you why? All things happen for a reason, right? We don't understand the details of our lives because we're so busy living day to day. We need to take a few steps back and take the whole picture in.

Amy Astorga

#47. There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

Bryan White

#48. Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Charlaine Harris

#49. I say, " Things happen for a good reason.

Gawri Manecuta

#50. We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Elle Fanning

#51. Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

Tom Clancy

#52. Sometimes I think things happen for a reason ... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.

Lauren Blakely

#53. The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

A.A. Milne

#54. They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

Donavon Frankenreiter

#55. 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

#56. I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

Tracey Gold

#57. 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

#58. I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

Jil Sander

#59. It's better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen.

Nicola Yoon

#60. I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Ziggy Marley

#61. Does everything happen for a reason or do we reason things that happen?

William James Moore

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

Buddy Rice

#66. Funny how things work themselves out. Things happen that split up family and friends, then things happen that bring them back together. Everyone is in your life for a reason. My hope is for all the reasons to be good. Those who love you never lose touch, are always consistent, and unquestionable.

April Mae Monterrosa

#67. It didn't happen for a reason, Alann. These things never do. Hurt spills over into hurt, like water over stones. There's no foreseeing it, no knowing who it will touch, who will be left standing.

Mark Lawrence

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. And as anxious as he was to fulfill this vision, Pug knew that musings were rewarded after patient waiting because things always happen for a reason and not before the time is right.

Jackson Dunes

#71. Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason- Holly was getting close to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true.

Sarah Dunn

#72. For no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will.

Plato

#73. I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

Archie Panjabi

#74. I think that things happen for a reason.

Dave Davies

#75. Nothing
happens without a reason.

Marilyn Monroe

#76. Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It's made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom's words and know that something better is meant to come my way.

Amanda Bynes

#77. Frederick knows better than to believe, as his wife sometimes claims to, that all things happen for a reason. Things happen; it is up to us to invent for them a purpose.

Stefan Merrill Block

#78. You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Martin Landau

#79. [Thomas said] "I have my cell phone on me. Try to call before things start exploding."
"Maybe this time it'll be different. Maybe I'll work everything out through reason, diplomacy, dialogue, and mutual cooperation."
Thomas eyed me.
I tried to look wounded. "It could happen.

Jim Butcher

#80. For fuck's sake, you vanished and I couldn't find you. Do you really think I'm going to let that happen again? If you believe nothing else, concede it will work for that reason alone. I don't lose things that are mine.

Karen Marie Moning

#81. The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.

Emily Rose

#82. She has changed me in a way that I cannot explain. She has made me realize that sometimes things happen for a reason and not to push you back in life, but to move you forward to where you're truly meant to be.

Erika Taylor

#83. I realize that things happen for a reason.

Karl Malone

#84. Things don't happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen.

Jon R.

#85. I guess I'd rather live in a world where bad things happen for some reason than no reason.

Daniel Price

#86. So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Christina Baker Kline

#87. Maybe things don't really happen for a reason," Kenneth said. "Or maybe they do. But I think it doesn't matter either way. Because we can only experience those things as humans. And because we're humans, we're going to think they mean one thing, even if they mean another.

Rose Christo

#88. BAD THINGS HAPPEN THAT WE CAN'T CHANGE BUT THAT IS NO REASON YO SHUT OUT THE ONES WE LOVE

Anonymous

#89. Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Sarah Dessen

#90. One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.

John Assaraf

#91. Things don't happen for no reason.

Kristen Stewart

#92. All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.

James E. Faust

#93. 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

#94. Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

Neal Shusterman

#95. I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

Glen Duncan

#96. Sometimes things happen for a reason, though they are not obvious at that moment, and there is nothing you can do to control them.

Preeti Shenoy

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