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Quotes About Happening

It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.
~ Jack London
What do you think is going to happen? What we make happen, says Joseph—again, with resolution. That's easy to say, says Frank. Not if you mean it, says Joseph.
~ James Baldwin
The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love — by knowing … that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him
~ James Baldwin
The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Don't get me wrong - our fanbase is super passionate, and I love them, but there's a difference between stalking me at the airport and just happening to see me.
~ Seth Rollins
As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.
~ Rodney Howard-Browne
Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.
~ Michael Franti
When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.
~ Mike McCready
A Westlife reunion is definitely going to happen - but I have no idea when.
~ Louis Walsh
I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.
~ Nora Roberts
There was a pedantic tedium to the way the internet was described—a continual onslaught of jargon that insisted something important was happening without fully elucidating what the important thing was.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Somos y ya está, y lo que pasa, simplemente pasa.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.
~ Clark Ashton Smith
Some change at once went through them all, as if this had really happened, and they were all conscious of making a party together...; had their common cause against that fluidity out there... and now the same effect was got by the many candles in the sparely furnished room, and the uncurtained windows, and the bright mask-like look of faces seen by candlelight. Some weight was taken off them; anything might happen…
~ Virginia Woolf
We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.
~ Larry Kramer
It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.
~ larue eva
RULE 33: MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THERE IS A VERY ORDINARY EXPLANATION FOR THE 'EXTRAORDINARY' HAPPENING.
~ Lauren Child
Let's pretend," he says, "that you never met me. That she was never born. That none of this ever happened." Then he is gone.
~ Celeste Ng
Nowness is the sense that we are attuned to what is happening. The past is fiction and the future is a dream, and we are just living on the edge of a razor blade.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Was sein soll, muß geschehen, und was sein sollte, das geschah.
~ Chamisso, Adelbert von
Emerging markets investing, where Capital is far and away the world leader1 came very close to never happening. "David Fisher is the one who said, 'This is where the future lies. Let's go for it!'" explains Bob Kirby.
~ Charles D. Ellis
In this system, our world could be considered a shadow or a projection of events that are happening in a deeper, underlying reality.
~ Gregg Braden
Curlicuing around the note allows a singer to mimic the sense of event in soul music, the sense that something is happening which has not happened before and cannot be repeated, by mimicking the apprehension of soul, those moments when singers dramatize their struggle to bring out of themselves what lies buried in them, inaccessible, until this moment, even to themselves.
~ Greil Marcus