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Quotes About Happening

Everyone's life, not matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. That moment is the catalyst - the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere - it's what comes after that determines the result.
~ Robyn Schneider
There are some things you shouldn't overhear, some things that are too terrible to comprehend when other people are discussing them, even though they're happening to you.
~ Robyn Schneider
I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'
~ Rodman Philbrick
There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.
~ Ronnie Barker
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
What can be described can happen too: and what the law of causality is meant to exclude cannot even be described.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It isn't just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we've hardly been aware of it. But think of the things going on in our own country which you wouldn't have believed possible only a few years ago.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Toate veÅŸtile noi sunt veÅŸti vechi care se întâmpl? unor oameni noi.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
And so I learnt the secret of diversity. Life is made up of different avenues. Everything can happen in one of several ways, according to different musical scores and parallel logics. Each of these parallel logics is consistent and coherent in its own terms, perfect in itself, indifferent to all the others. In
~ Amos Oz
She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
~ Anais Nin
Istoria este ficÅ£iunea care s-a întâmplat. FicÅ£iunea este istoria care s-ar fi putut întâmpla
~ Andre Gide
Where did the genius come from? Where did it go? Like allowing another lover into the house to live with you, someone you'd never met but whom you knew he loved more than you. Poetry every day. A novel every few years. Something happened in that room, despite everything; something beautiful happened. It was the only place in the world where time made things better.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
~ Sarah Dessen
Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
~ Sarah Dessen
But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.
~ Sarah Dessen
Suddenly the light came on at the back of her parents' house, flooding the yard. "Is there somebody out there? Amy, is that you?" her mother called. "No. Tell me this isn't happening." Quinn rested his forehead against hers. "Has she got a wiretap on you or something? I swear, she's like a walking hard-on detector.
~ Sarah Mayberry
This man, Trump. There is no way he could be president. Okay, just take my word for it. It was never going to happen.
~ John Birmingham
A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
~ John Cage
Nothing in this place seemed bound by the rules of chance alone. There was a purpose to all that was happening, a pattern behind it, even if David could catch only glimpses of it in passing.
~ John Connolly
The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.
~ John Daido Loori