Things That Happen Quotes

#1. I have come to understand that there are things in this world, in this life, that don't fit that model. There are things that happen, things that are absolutely real that you can't put in a test tube, or see, or feel with your hands. But you know they are real and they are true

Robert D. Lesslie

#2. A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

Jason Haxton

#3. These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

Linwood Barclay

#4. Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Sigourney Weaver

#5. I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

Erich Fromm

#6. I don't want to be one of those people that's constantly promoting myself on Twitter. I think the fun thing about Twitter is being able to share all the little random things that happen in my life.

Bridgit Mendler

#7. Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands.

John Boyne

#8. There's no justice in this world, the things that happen to people.

Julie Berry

#9. I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.

Colleen Hoover

#10. To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER.

Louise Fitzhugh

#12. Failures ... believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

Earl Nightingale

#13. The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

Kiki Smith

#14. There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

Pierce Brosnan

#15. Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

Lloyd Alexander

#16. Then trust me. I think the safest place for me is with you, and I won't regret it. I don't regret anything. The things that we do and the things that happen ... to us," I gulped and pushed down memories, "make us who we are.

Shelly Crane

#17. The terrible things that happen to us," Tessa said slowly. "What we
do with them ... I think that's what makes us artists.

Helen Maryles Shankman

#18. I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

Bryan Fuller

#19. We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

Sarah Winter

#20. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time. Not even when we
try to understand the things that happen to us. Close the door, change the record, clean the house. Stop being who you were, become who you are NOW.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.

Nicholas Kristof

#22. You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

Marisha Pessl

#24. He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman.

Stephanie Witter

#25. Things that happen are of no importance. But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.

John Steinbeck

#26. Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us. Envy, as I told you, is poison, and futile - we want to be the other person. But jealousy is generous - we want the other person to be ours.

Carlos Fuentes

#27. You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

Paulo Coelho

#28. If you are anticipating the worst while hoping for the best, you will get the worst. The things that happen to you are in direct accordance with the things wherein you place your faith. Believe you are licked - and you are.

Harold Sherman

#29. 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

#30. There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

Robert Breault

#31. Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

Phyllis Bottome

#32. Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most

Ellen DeGeneres

#33. 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

#34. Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

Coeur De Pirate

#35. War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.

Mike Hoffman

#36. Fashion is just a name for one of the things that happen where mind and body intersect.

Herbert Muschamp

#37. The things that happen in fiction mirror those things that have happened ---or will happen soon --- in real life.

Bill Granger

#38. The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

Abby Sunderland

#39. 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

#40. Children picked up things on a different level than adults. They hadn't spent much time building up defense mechanisms and rationalizations for all the shitty things that happen in the world. Kids take everything straight, no chaser. It's later on we all start bullshitting ourselves. Dominic

Al Sarrantonio

#41. Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

Joe Abercrombie

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

William James Moore

#43. Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

Tom Waits

#44. I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.

Anna Quindlen

#45. If we choose to learn and grow from the things that happen to us, is it even necessary to guess at why they happened? What's a more productive use of our energy - searching for meaning outside ourselves or creating meaning within ourselves?

Lori Deschene

#46. Somehow, someway, you get kind of labeled this guy who was in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie too many. And Freddie Prinze Jr. - it's not his fault, either - it's just these are the things that happen. I'm not a George Clooney; I don't have a ton of opportunities.

Matthew Lillard

#47. All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

Tab Hunter

#48. You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

Lauren Bacall

#49. All good things that happen today are a part of golden memories in future.

Saravana Kumar Murugan

#50. I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?

Meghan Trainor

#51. Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

Eric Avery

#52. There's a lot of true things that happen in our life. I think we see them at the very moment they happen too, then we try to forget about them.

Jonis Agee

#53. The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#54. There are things that happen in our life but we dont want them to happen. Irony is they happen in front of our eyes and all we could do is let them happen

Lovely Goyal

#55. I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.

Courtney Barnett

#56. Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Stendhal

#57. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets

Harper Lee

#58. I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Michael Longley

#59. People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

John Lasseter

#60. When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Nate Silver

#61. He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises.

Paulo Coelho

#62. So often, we want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. But we need to leave enough space in our days to get up from our prayers and actually look for God in the moment-to-moment things that happen.

Lysa TerKeurst

#63. 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

#64. There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.

Jennifer St. Giles

#65. I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.

Keith Carter

#66. The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland. ... I never said it was wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was dangerous.

G.K. Chesterton

#67. One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

Matt Kemp

#68. I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

Julie Kagawa

#69. I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

Aaron Carter

#70. Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us.

Ramona Koval

#71. There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

Nicholas Sparks

#72. My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.

Nathan Lowell

#73. It is the things that happen, then how you react to them , that gives life some meaning.

Steven Redhead

#74. I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Eric Bogosian

#75. The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on drought patterns from climate change. Or another little incremental improvement in photovoltaics. Where do those fit in to the daily stream? They don't.

Andrew Revkin

#76. I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.

George W. Bush

#77. Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

#78. 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

#79. I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

Chris Van Allsburg

#80. I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

Ray Davies

#81. Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

Matthew Kelly

#82. I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

Tupac Shakur

#83. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Marcus Aurelius

#84. There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Joyce Meyer

#85. Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

Mitch Albom

#86. What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.

Zachary Lazar

#87. Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

Ne-Yo

#88. 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

#89. Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

Anton Chekhov

#90. The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

Roger Spottiswoode

#91. When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

Will Gluck

#92. There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

John Morgridge

#93. Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Jo Brand

#94. Many difficult things that happen in a marriage relationship are actually part of the enemy's plan set up for its demise.

Stormie O'martian

#95. You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

Joel Osteen

#96. 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

#97. If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

Pope Benedict XVI

#98. I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

Tom Brady

#99. Josie thinks that the problem with being a writer is that you miss a lot of your life wondering if the things that happen to you are good enough to use in a story, and most of the time they're not and you have to make shit up anyway.

Katherine Heiny

#100. Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you.

Les Brown