Top 100 When Things Don't Happen Quotes
#1. When things don't happen, people get Sick. They see time Tick and they want it Quick. They forget that Success happens brick by brick.
R.v.m.
#2. When things don't happen right away, just remember: it takes 6 months to build a Rolls-Royce and just 13 hours to build a Toyota.
Anonymous
#3. I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
Mike Peters
#4. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#5. Bad things happen when angry people grieve.
Bethany-Kris
#6. 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
#7. If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen ... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.
Will Smith
#8. Object-oriented programming had boldly promised "to model the world." Well, the world is a scary place where bad things happen for no apparent reason, and in this narrow sense I concede that OO does model the world.
Dave Fancher
#9. If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Ron Livingston
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen
Jesse Andrews
#13. With God beside us every moment of the day, we are safe - even when bad things happen, even when God's timing is not our timing. He is our refuge.
Darlene Zschech
#14. If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.'It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when.
Jean Rhys
#15. 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
#16. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.
Shelley Jackson
#18. I wouldn't have taken him. Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of it. [ ... ] It's not going to be totally smooth things will happen.
Tony Dungy
#19. That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.
Joe
#20. I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
Charles Dickens
#21. I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.
Chris Gethard
#22. I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
Heidi Klum
#23. 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
#24. There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White
#25. The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
John Steinbeck
#26. 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
#27. Lesson learned: bad things happen to good people.
Amy Zhang
#28. Dreams are madness, my dear. It's things that happen in the waking world, while one is asleep, that one would be glad to know the meaning of.
Joseph Conrad
#29. If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things
Jaggi Vasudev
#30. If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.
John Connolly
#31. I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#32. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Max Gray
#33. Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.
Robin LaFevers
#34. 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
#35. As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed ...
Tasha Alexander
#36. I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
Katee Sackhoff
#37. 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
#39. Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
Michael Ondaatje
#40. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#41. I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
Bubba Sparxxx
#42. I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.
Lloyd Kaufman
#43. I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.
Bret Easton Ellis
#44. I remember watching television when I was younger, and I felt like there were things TV tackled first, and then it would happen to me in real life, and I felt prepared.
Bresha Webb
#45. 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
#46. What happens after you die?" "Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you.
Louis C.K.
#47. 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
#48. if you wanted special things to happen in your life, then you had to damn well get up of your own backside and make them happen yourself.
Neil Hunter
#49. One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.
Robert Kiyosaki
#50. Things fall apart, and fade, and when these things happen you just need to pick yourself up and start over,
Evan Reeves
#51. Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
Rory Miller
#52. I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.
David Hare
#53. Don't question anything too much. Just take things as they happen.
Sean Kennedy
#54. You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.
Shunryu Suzuki
#55. Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.
Robin Roberts
#56. To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
#57. 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
#58. Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?
Shanthi Sekaran
#60. The most beautiful things in life happen, when they are least expected.
Deepak Rana
#61. Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
#62. 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
#63. Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan.
Larry Winget
#64. 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
#65. Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
Robin Sharma
#66. Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.
Kelley Armstrong
#67. Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
Mariska Hargitay
#68. You're not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are responsible for how you react to what happens to you. You either stay on your knees or you get up. Those are your choices.
Eileen Cruz Coleman
#69. We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.
Robin Sharma
#70. Things that happen to us, even the bad stuff, can often teach us a little bit about ourselves.
R.J. Palacio
#71. You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.
John Lloyd
#72. You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.
Dave Eggers
#73. You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.
Danielle Steel
#74. I'd not known such mistakes to happen
but we don't learn so much
from those things we do correctly
so perhaps it's best we see poorly
through our misconstructed eyes
David R. Cravens
#75. Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
#76. You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#77. There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body parts into them just to see what will happen, even after I've warned you about them, then you won't live long, and you certainly can't work on my ship.
J.Z. Colby
#78. We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there".
Scott Fotheringham
#79. You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope.
Pegi Young
#80. All things happen in perfect order.
Mel Wayne
#81. Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
Alice Hoffman
#82. I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.
Graham Cooke
#83. All sorts of things can happen when you're open to new ideas and playing around with things.
Stephanie Kwolek
#84. Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#85. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.
R.J. Gonzales
#86. There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.
Sue Wicks
#87. I just tried to make things happen, whether it was (my) shots or getting shots for other people.
Mike Bibby
#88. There's all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy's one of those few things where you can discuss those things.
Hasan Minhaj
#89. It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.
Christopher Paolini
#90. Before I met Mr. Shoaff, I used to ask, "How much does it cost?" But he taught me to ask, "What is it worth?" When I started to base my life on value instead of price, all kinds of things began to happen.
Jim Rohn
#91. It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.
Elisa Albert
#92. 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
#93. People are going to move in and out of their office, and they're going to move up or get fired. All kinds of things happen like that, in real life. And, we're always going to have crime, unfortunately. If we didn't, then I wouldn't have a new show.
Angie Harmon
#94. Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.
C.K. Kelly Martin
#95. That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.
Kurt Wagner
#96. It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me; perhaps it is because I am always ready to meet an agreeable situation a little more than halfway.
A. Edward Newton
#97. Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.
Jaggi Vasudev
#98. When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises,
Paulo Coelho
#99. For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know in your bones and in your cells once they happen to you.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#100. And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
Sebastian Faulks
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