Top 100 Things Just Happen Quotes
#1. It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account for everything that's happened. It's nice to think the world makes sense. It's nice to think that you make sense. But sometimes things just happen.
Kirsty Logan
#2. 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
#3. The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".
Terry Pratchett
#4. The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous.
And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
The Doctor
#5. sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
Marian Keyes
#6. Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.
Patrick Stump
#8. It's so crazy now with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I still feel so lucky when that happens. Things just happen so fast.
Mac DeMarco
#9. Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?
James Lee Burke
#10. Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just ... well, things happening one after another.
Terry Pratchett
#13. VALERIE: .....It isn't your fault. These things, these horrible things just happen.
Cambria Hebert
#14. When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.
Meg Cabot
#15. Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.
Benjamin Hoff
#17. Maybe some things are just meant to be. maybe some things just happen, no matter what.
Alyson Noel
#18. I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present.
Michael S. Gazzaniga
#19. I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.
Daron Malakian
#20. Never take the position that things just happen to you; rather, they happen because of something you did or did not do.
Grant Cardone
#21. Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes surfing this bank from Snapper to Kirra, sometimes you don't even think what you're doing but you do it anyway ... You get to the end of a wave and go, what did I do? Sometimes you go into a totally different state of mind.
Mick Fanning
#22. Things just happen. It was a pathetic logic, but it was, at its core, true. Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.
Colum McCann
#24. My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.
Katherine Moennig
#25. It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.
Michael Keaton
#26. Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!
Michelle Gardner
#27. You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.
Shunryu Suzuki
#28. People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.
Noah Cicero
#29. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#30. And now you've been so fucking spoiled by things coming to you so easily that you think everything's just going to happen for you.
Hanya Yanagihara
#31. By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"
Sasa Stanisic
#32. Follow your heart, darling, and please, please - try not to overthink things. Relax and enjoy yourself. You are so young, sweetheart. You have so much of life to experience yet, just let it happen. You deserve the best of everything.
E.L. James
#33. But in that moment, I felt it happen. My heart slowed, took a deep breath, and let out a giant sigh. Just like that, it gave in, unable to fight it anymore. I had no idea how long we had or how things were going to play out, but I knew without a doubt that I was in love with Carter. ***
Penelope Ward
#34. Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.
Annie E. Clark
#35. You can't depend on people who just let things happen
Tove Jansson
#36. So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.
Talib Kweli
#37. Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Natalie Du Toit
#38. There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot of TV, so they think certain things are going to happen, and you're always trying to subvert expectations.
Carlton Cuse
#39. Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.
Jules Verne
#40. Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective.
Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more.
Not that hard is it?
Donald L. Hicks
#41. I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
Kevin Hart
#42. In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
John Hench
#43. What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?
R. J. Anderson
#44. Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'
just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen.
Hilary Mantel
#45. guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.
Don Winslow
#46. September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.
Catherynne M Valente
#47. There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is
Gretchen Rubin
#48. And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
Bob Schieffer
#49. Ability, commitment, effort. Those are the three things required to succeed. If you have them, success will happen as sure as the sun will rise.
You just have to give it time
Cassandra Sky West
#50. I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
Joel Edgerton
#51. I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.
J.A. Redmerski
#52. I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our planet, and the potential for scariness on our planet. Being chased by anyone or anything can be scary. It is just a big, fun analogy.
Mireille Enos
#53. I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.
Sarah Snook
#54. None of this was supposed to happen, [...] but all of it did. I can't feel bas about it and I can't fell sorry about it, because I'm not. It's just the way things have turned out, and honestly, it's not our fault.
Estelle Maskame
#55. Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.
Elizabeth Reyes
#56. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones ... you might as well hold on to them.
Sarah Dessen
#57. Life is hard. Terrible things happen. We all have feelings. We're all just flesh and blood, trying to do our best.
Kylie Scott
#58. Fiction is just a mirror of reality for the most part. Many things that happen in fiction don't even happen here. But as far as pain and sadness. Joy and love, life and death, it's all real here. Here it's real.
Lucian Bane
#59. I say I just happen to be gay. It's just like everything else - I've been on the board of The Humane Society, and I'm a vegetarian, but these are just some of the things that define me as a person. They don't define me in general.
James Costos
#60. I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.
Topher Grace
#61. Just remember, your mother doesn't let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, she drags it into the street.
Kiera Cass
#62. The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back.
Alexandra Monir
#64. Growing up can really suck, he thought. And bad things sure as shit do happen to good people and for the most part the world just doesn't give a crap.
Brom
#65. I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.
John Brandon
#66. Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.
Lolo Jones
#67. 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
#68. I say bad things happen. Sometimes it's because of the choices we make, and sometimes it's because of the choices other people make . . . and sometimes it just happens.
Patrick W. Carr
#69. People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing
Oprah Winfrey
#70. So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.
Kathy Ireland
#71. Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.
Raymond E. Feist
#72. Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.
Will Self
#73. In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which they did happen.
Philip Pullman
#74. I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
Bob Seger
#75. I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.
Tony Gwynn
#76. Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
Shonda Rhimes
#77. Perhaps, the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#78. Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when
really bad things were just about to happen.
Joe Meno
#79. Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Stephen Colbert
#80. People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.
Nicola Yoon
#81. Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.
Jonathan Bennett
#82. You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.
Richard Petty
#83. I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.
Amanda McBroom
#85. But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
Josh Hamilton
#89. Sometimes, he said, the important things take time, sometimes they don't just happen all at once, sometimes answers come out of time and struggle, and learning. sometimes you just have to try again in a different way.
Lynne Cox
#90. I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
Lena Headey
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that's visually iconic, or emotionally that way.
Cameron Crowe
#94. 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
#95. To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all.
I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.
Lee Smith
#96. Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he causes things to happen ... it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.
Gregory Bateson
#97. Things don't just happen; things happen just.
Jim Rohn
#98. Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited, and some that are dangerous, I think, 'Ooh, what's going to happen?' and things like that.
Bindi Irwin
#99. It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
Wanda Jackson
#100. People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.
Jeffrey Bewkes
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