Top 100 When It Happens Quotes
#1. Depends. (Adron)
On? (Livia)
Whether or not they're plotting against you. Taryn's like a head injury. It's only funny when it happens to someone else. And Tiernan ... I think there's now a hurricane on Chrinon VI named after him. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. Over imagine something beforehand and you take the pulse out of it when it happens.
Glenn Haybittle
#3. I'm not sure what's going to happen. Maybe we make it, maybe we don't, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's to appreciate the good when it happens. And having this man accept and want me the way I am right now is a good thing, and it's happening right this second. So I'm gonna enjoy it.
J.A. Huss
#4. Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#5. Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.
Tom Vanderbilt
#6. I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.
Anthony Hopkins
#7. You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
William, Saroyan
#8. Whatever game you're playing, you're going to lose," he whispers. "And I'll be right there to rub your nose in it when it happens."
"Great. Well, at least I have something to look forward to." I cross my arms. "Now why don't you go parade your lack of dignity somewhere else?
Rachel Morgan
#9. That kind of walk is nice when it happens, but I'll take four minutes now and then over being butt-stapled to a chair all day long.
Robert Michael Pyle
#10. There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.
Mark Collett
#11. Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind.
David Souter
#12. Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time ... The wait is simply too long.
Leonard Bernstein
#13. When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment
Augustine Of Hippo
#14. Change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.
Daniel H. Pink
#15. What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.
Melina Marchetta
#16. I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.
Simon Sinek
#17. No, I'm not (disappointed). There's no reason to be because I'm on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So when it happens, why be disappointed if I win over 90% of my matches.
Roger Federer
#18. Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
Ashly Lorenzana
#19. Every time you win a cup it's special, but it's a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players.
Clarence Seedorf
#20. Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.
Winston Churchill
#21. It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.
Miguel Cabrera
#22. When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.
Moby
#23. I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.
Brian Molko
#24. God has HIS way of letting you know when you made the right or wrong decision. Pay attention when it happens.
Carlos Wallace
#26. I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is. The
Stephen Chbosky
#27. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.
Kelly Slater
#29. He leaned down and kissed me again, more chaste this time. "Now, we get to know each other. When it happens, whether it happens tonight or another one, I just want it to mean to you what it'll mean to me.
J.B. Hartnett
#30. Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
Orson Scott Card
#31. I'll be ready for my first kiss! When it happens, it'll happen, but I don't know. It doesn't look like that will be anytime soon.
Emma Roberts
#32. When it happens to a wizard, insurance companies go broke and there's reconstruction afterward. What was stirring in me now made those previous feelings of battle rage seem like anemic kittens.
Jim Butcher
#33. Love isn't something you can turn off. When it happens, it takes a little piece of who you are. I think sometimes people keep fighting because they're more afraid to lose that piece of them, rather than lose the person they love.
Vi Keeland
#34. Maybe God wants you to meet many wrong people, before you meet the right one,so when it happens you'll be thankful ;)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#35. An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.
Miya Yamanouchi
#36. And the thing about falling in love
is that no matter where you are when it happens, you can't help but to color those moments with beauty,
even if you're in a location of ugliness. He made what would have been a place of nightmares into a place
to dream.
Mia Sheridan
#37. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.
Oliver Goldsmith
#38. Yet when it happens to me that the music moves me more than the subject of the song, I confess myself to commit a sin deserving punishment, and then I would prefer not to have heard the singer.
Augustine Of Hippo
#39. Repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.
Daniel Coyle
#40. I don't mind dying ... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
#41. We must strongly resist reductions in diversity, especially when it happens, either directly or indirectly, because of our own activities.
David Brandon
#42. Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.
Tatiana Maslany
#43. There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
Barbara Kruger
#44. Life is an adventure," Karen's mother used to tell her, "so be sure you experience it when it happens." It was one of Grace Tyler's favorites, one of several rules in her "Mom" arsenal, along with the ones about always having umbrellas and clean underwear and quarters for the pay phone.
Tom Savage
#45. Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
Sharon Creech
#46. A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
Leo Frankowski
#47. To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
D. A. Pennebaker
#48. Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.
Jenna Evans Welch
#49. There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.
Conan O'Brien
#50. You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.
Michael Connelly
#51. I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.
William Eggleston
#52. A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#53. I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.
Millicent Ashby
#54. In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.
Erica Jong
#55. When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
Rani Mukerji
#56. Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.
Ron Kaufman
#57. We can't protect her from life, Nell. You know that. She's going to get hurt someday. All we can do is love her, and be there when it happens.
Jasinda Wilder
#58. I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.
Jim Jefferies
#59. The United States allegedly presses for democratic change in the region, and when it happens, democracy brings to power anti-US parties.
Khaled Hroub
#60. All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.
Jeffrey Pierce
#61. We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate,' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.
Minette Walters
#62. Love isn't something you can negotiate, Nash. When it happens, it becomes everything.
Jay Crownover
#63. Sometimes a moment defines you, defines how people see you for the rest of your life. You can accept it or fight it. If you're lucky, you'll recognize the moment when it happens.
Corrine Jackson
#64. I tend to write about love because I'm always thinking about it. I think a lot though and struggle with overanalyzing. Way over. That's the thing, I feel like I do that a lot and then finally when I stop thinking, that's when it happens.
Jillian Hervey
#65. If I truly loved a man, his fortune or lack of one would not make any difference to me. In any case, we cannot always choose with whom we fall in love. When it happens, it is not something we can just dismiss on a whim or tell to go away. There is no rhyme nor reason in matters of the heart.
Jane Odiwe
#66. Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
Jodi Picoult
#67. When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.
Sigmund Freud
#68. It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#69. Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.
John Barnes
#70. I can't tell you exactly what I'm looking for, but I'll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul. I want to be violated by insight.
Aimee Bender
#71. Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.
Josh Peck
#72. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney Company
#73. He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay."
"But what about everybody else?"
He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.
Scott Westerfeld
#74. When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself.
Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future.
Charles Yu
#75. I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.
Johnny Knoxville
#76. I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.
Robert Henri
#77. Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#78. Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.
Muhammad Ali
#79. No matter how hard you try, there are some things that we can't force it to happen. It happens when it happens. And that's how it happened.
Ariff Adly
#80. The end is the end no matter when it happens. Waiting only makes it hurt more.
Rebekah Crane
#81. I don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it.
Taylor Swift
#82. If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.
Steve Case
#83. Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit ... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
Henry David Thoreau
#84. The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they're all fairy tales, obviously, like the television news; but the obvious is only obvious when it happens to someone else.
Anthony Marra
#85. Rejection is part of the journey toward success, so don't be insulted or get upset when it happens. In fact, get excited about how you just got closer to your Yes!
Michelle Moore
#86. It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.
Jack Brymer
#87. You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'
Brian Dennehy
#88. Every single day for the rest of your life, somebody is going to push you in the pool. And you'd better decide now how you're going to act when it happens>
Andy Andrews
#89. How many women here like to have sex in the morning? Now how many like to be awake when it happens?
Marsha Warfield
#90. She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
Michael Arlen
#91. I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.
Michel Gondry
#92. It's too hard to explain. I can't say why I love the book. I just do. You don't pick the books you fall in love with any more than you pick the people you fall in love with. It just happens, and when it happens, you know. Who's to say where love comes from?
Sarah Combs
#93. As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn't even know I was fighting. It doesn't happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it's better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with
Colleen Hoover
#94. You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love.
Helen Fisher
#95. To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
Philip Sidney
#96. When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.
Albert Camus
#97. Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. Forster
#98. At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.
Ray Rhodes
#100. It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.
Steve Yzerman
