Top 100 Things Can Happen Quotes
#1. Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
#2. All sorts of things can happen when you're open to new ideas and playing around with things.
Stephanie Kwolek
#3. Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.
Frank Norris
#4. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.
Barbara Pym
#5. If someone is there to believe in you, to care about you and support you, amazing things can happen.
Tim Tebow
#6. Our show proves that some pretty incredible things can happen when people come together.
Ty Pennington
#7. amazing things can happen when we admit that we don't know.
Liz Wiseman
#8. You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.
Eric Heiden
#9. To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.
Michael Sam
#10. Risk means more things can happen than will happen.
Elroy Dimson
#11. I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Hershiser
#12. When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?
Jodi Picoult
#13. The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
Benny Green
#14. Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.
Lloyd D. Newell
#15. Amazing things can happen when the family of God bands together.
Billy Graham
#16. A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
Daniel H. Pink
#17. It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.
Eve Bunting
#18. "Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."
Elmore Leonard
#19. The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.
Jerry Hall
#20. Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#21. Things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.
Lesley Kagen
#22. When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.
Jon Krakauer
#23. And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
Anne Lamott
#24. Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
Alex Flinn
#25. If you do enough small things right, big things can happen
John Wooden
#26. Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.
Darrell Royal
#27. Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!
Clint Eastwood
#28. Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.
Jennifer Lawrence
#29. As a community, great things can happen when each individual contributes, according to their strengths, toward a common goal.
Idowu Koyenikan
#30. Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.
Pete Carroll
#31. I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
Simon Van Booy
#32. You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.
Ruud Gullit
#33. What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.
Philip Guston
#36. If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.
Kip Thorne
#38. I've often said that great things can happen to you and for you, but if it doesn't happen in you, then the way you view yourself won't change.
Maria Durso
#39. Bad things can happen, and often do
but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.
James A. Owen
#40. I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try.
Hilari Bell
#41. In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.
Mario Andretti
#42. I have experienced some fun moments that have built my courage, and showed me that if we will trust God with our potential embarrassment and step into the outer edges of our faith, fun things can happen.
Adam Gellert
#43. It is not love that keeps us stuck in the past. Love fades over time. What introspective hearts seek is simply unanswered questions about why terrible things can happen to very good people. Closure never comes from reflection. It only comes from God's guidance and promptings.
Shannon L. Alder
#44. When a mortal dreams, all kinds of strange things can happen. When a wizard dreams, it can be even weirder. Sometimes, dreams can be intense enough to create a little, temporary world of their own.
Jim Butcher
#45. number of ways things can happen is stupendous. The mind's potential lies beyond its own comprehension.
Robert Lanza
#46. Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.
Mike Holmgren
#47. For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.
Walton Goggins
#48. I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!
Lakshmi Pratury
#49. I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.
Tony Dungy
#50. Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.
Megan McCafferty
#51. Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.
DeiAmor Verus
#52. But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.
Jim Coleman
#53. For crying out loud, absurd things can happen, none of us is spared." He reached out and gave her a soft pat on the back. "So screw it, lovey. Enjoy every second you've got and stop moping around." - Intomesee
Maha Erwin
#54. Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
Patrick Kane
#55. Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.
Hans Ree
#56. I believe in a world where all these things can happen, even if I have to do them myself.
Adrian Lamo
#57. At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
James A. Baldwin
#58. When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.
Brian Houston
#59. Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.
Darrell Royal
#60. From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law school after all, and, instead, you spend a good, big chunk of your adult life telling people how you decided not to go to law school after all. Somehow you end up writing again.
Lorrie Moore
#61. Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
Mark Twain
#62. My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.
Venus Williams
#63. One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street ... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.
Jeff Cooper
#64. When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
Karen Blixen
#65. If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
Marissa Mayer
#66. Even out of bad things, good things can happen. Even things that are sordid or painful can lead to things that are beautiful.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#67. Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt down bad guys with Stephanie Plum. Amazing things can happen when you read.
Ally Carter
#68. Why are habits so important? They are, in essence, behavioral autopilot. They allow lots of good behaviors to happen without the Rider taking charge. Remember that the Rider's self-control is exhaustible, so it's a huge plus if some positive things can happen "free" on autopilot.
Chip Heath
#69. Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to.
Judy Blume
#70. I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.
Marilyn Manson
#71. Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen I love the process of going into mystery.
David
#72. When women put their heads together, powerful things can happen!
Oprah Winfrey
#73. Life's messy," he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#74. Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?
Danielle Steel
#75. Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!
Dr. Seuss
#76. Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.
Tim Tebow
#77. What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#78. Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.
Mehcad Brooks
#79. Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
Geoffrey Hinton
#80. Sometimes extraordinary things can happen on the most ordinary of days.
Julie Garwood
#81. The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
Robert Wilson
#82. Austin had a concussion tonight. That's the way it goes for us. We get one back, we lose one. Or lose two. We've had the most difficult time the last two years just keeping a full roster. Hopefully at some point at the end of the tunnel some good things can happen for the Indiana Pacers.
Jermaine O'Neal
#83. I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.
John Gordon Sinclair
#84. Sometimes, things can happen in life that you didn't plan for. All you can do now is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.
Colleen Hoover
#85. I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
William Goldman
#86. Be brave-or at least, try to be brave-and good things can happen.
Tommy Greenwald
#87. Whenever unexamined outlooks come to the surface, surprising things can happen.
Barnet Bain
#88. My goal is to encourage people to see the possibilities that life holds. So many great things can happen in life, if we can find our own way of doing things, and believe in ourselves, no matter what challenges surround you.
Jim Abbott
#89. These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
Atom Egoyan
#90. Let's start affecting our whole city, and maybe we can affect the whole nation, the whole world. I'd like to affect it with the fact that God is a good God and He's on your side and He's got a good plan for you and when you put your hand in His, great things can happen.
Joel Osteen
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.
Chris Gethard
#96. Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."
Boyd K. Packer
#97. There are worse things that can happen to an enemy of the state than Gitmo. Hate to say it, hate it to be the truth, but there it is.
Jonathan Maberry
#98. You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle
to get one's head cut off." pg. 199
Lewis Carroll
#99. Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?
Shanthi Sekaran
#100. If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'
Travis Hafner
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