Something Good Happens Quotes

#1. You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

Alison Lurie

#2. When something bad happens to us, something good happens - often to someone else. And that's The Good Luck of Right Now. We must believe it. We must. We must. We must.

Matthew Quick

#3. My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.

Lisa Scottoline

#4. Just because something good happens to someone else doesn't mean something good won't also happen to you

Meg Donohue

#5. There is a fundamental problem with regulators. If a regulator agrees to change a rule and something bad happens, they could easily lose their career. Whereas if they change a rule and something good happens, they don't even get a reward.

Ashlee Vance

#6. Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

Candace Bushnell

#7. If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Meghan Daum

#9. Coincidence is usually mentioned only when something good happens. Whenever it's something bad, it's easier to blame someone, something.

Kate Griffin

#10. Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in.

Karen Salmansohn

#11. That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Charles Bukowski

#12. We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us ... hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace.

Anne Frank

#13. When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

Pablo Casals

#14. I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

Eileen Myles

#15. I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Andre Agassi

#16. We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

Michael Mann

#17. Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

Larry David

#18. The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. A humble woman gets her strength from God and gives Him all the glory when something good happens

Latorria Freeman

#20. Most of the time
99 percent of the time
you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Lauren Oliver

#21. My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.

Sue Townsend

#22. Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.

Peter McWilliams

#23. Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

Dean Smith

#24. Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

Steve Spurrier

#25. When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

Marshall Brickman

#26. I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.

Marshall Brickman

#27. Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

Justin Theroux

#28. The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!

Johnathon Schaech

#29. I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

David Lagercrantz

#30. What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic and pretty saleable), and they just write it down?

Martin Amis

#31. And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

Sophie Kinsella

#32. I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.

Millicent Ashby

#33. Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

Kate Winslet

#34. This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.

Pittacus Lore

#35. If you shouldn't blame yourself for minor things you did or didn't do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?

Mark Rogerson

#36. How come when you're feeling good like this, something always happens to wreck it all? How come?

Gary D. Schmidt

#37. I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

Kate Bush

#38. No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God's often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.

Timothy Keller

#39. You know what sucks about sorry? It's the worst word in the world. Because it always happens after you fuck up something good.

Brigid Kemmerer

#40. It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

Laura Linney

#41. There's a portion of the movie where something bad happens to me, and I lose my clothes along the way, so essentially I'm wearing a bra and trousers. There are certain requirements, but luckily I have a good base because I work out often.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#42. Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough ... maybe something good finally happens.

Rick Remender

#43. Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

Graham Moore

#44. Real isn't what you are; it;s something that happens. And right now, you need something good to happen to you.

Sylvain Reynard

#45. Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!

Gilles Marini

#46. Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

Mary Oliver

#47. If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.

Yasmin Mogahed

#48. Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#49. Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.

Chris Hadfield

#50. Keep hustling, something good will happen,

Joe Paterno

#51. When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. I've always been someone who likes to share and talk. When something happens to me I [don't] run away from it. I want to dive right into and explore it. Try to figure out why it's happening and try to figure out something good that's going to come out of it.

Tristan Prettyman

#53. It seems like it happens pretty often - there's always something that happens that's bad. About 40 percent of the food I make doesn't come out so good, only because I'm experimenting and it just doesn't work out right. It's always a learning experience.

Thu Tran

#54. I always think something good is about to happen,

Pete Carroll

#55. When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

Christie Brinkley

#56. No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.

Srikumar Rao

#57. You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.

William Stafford

#58. 'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

Margot Robbie

#59. Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing.
The Higher Power of Lucky

Susan Patron

#60. First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

Mike Krzyzewski

#61. Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.

Oral Roberts

#62. Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

Andy Andrews

#63. There is plenty of suffering before the good happens. This is something that I have taken stock in, because I've dealt with plenty of bullshit for somebody so fresh out of the womb.

Alida Nugent

#64. Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

Bill Gates

#65. When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.

Rita Zahara

#66. We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

#67. I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.

Gayle Forman

#68. I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

David O. Russell

#69. The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes to, 'Can I write about this?' - which is good and bad.

Riki Lindhome

#70. I know I'm not going to say good-bye. And if these staggering refugees want to help, if they think they see something bigger here than a boy chasing a girl, then they can help, and we'll see what happens when we say yes while the rigor mortis world screams no.

Isaac Marion

#71. Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

John Sharp

#72. You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

Sarah Kane

#73. When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

Rick Nielsen

#74. Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then ... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

Michael Patrick King

#75. A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

Rod Milburn

#76. Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'

Chris Pine

#77. Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

Geoff Ryman

#78. I would feel weird having someone style me. It would have to be a collaboration. I've had those experiences and every time it happens I don't feel good. What's the point of putting all this work into something and then when you present it, it's not you?

Jillian Hervey

#79. While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.

Wooden Wand

#80. Magic is something that surrounds you all the time! Always be happy no matter what happens!

Lars Andersson

#81. It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.

Wallace Stegner

#82. I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about.

Nicolas Cage

#83. When something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means. There is a purpose to life's events, to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too hard.
You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.

Anonymous

#84. Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more
it's sad, but that's the truth.

Banana Yoshimoto

#85. Mothers and daughters share a special bond." "I never knew how special until it wasn't there anymore. I'm twenty-seven, and when something good or bad happens in my life, I still wonder what my mom would think. I've lived more of my life without her than with her, but it still matters.

Barbara Freethy

#86. The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

Hayao Miyazaki

#87. Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.

Jamie Muir

#88. We all hate something from our past, Cal. That's why we run from it, or compensate for it, or even fill our van with homeless people. But when something like this happens-when your dad shows up-maybe there is a bigger purpose. 'What you intended for evil, God intended for good.' Genesis 50:20

Brad Meltzer

#89. When something happens to me - good, bad, boring it doesn't matter - I have to tell someone to make it count. There's no point in anything happening if you can't talk about it.

Maureen Johnson

#90. To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.

Elon Musk

#91. Almighty has choose me as an agent for doing something great for the mankind and society, and that is why I believe that whatever happens is always for the good because it not me who is doing everything, it is the super #energy that is governing my energy...

Ujjwal Chugh

#92. It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.

Steven J. Carroll