Quotes About Happening

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!

The Count was Prince Humperdink's only confidant. His last name was Rugen, but no one needed to use it - he was the only Count in the country, the title having been bestowed by the Prince as a birthday present some years before, the happening taking place, naturally, at one of the Countess' parties.

This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that it has ever truly occurred. Ever! And yet we have just witnessed not just one instance, but two. Two! And both happening at the exact moment when we were in the middle of...

You have to work [...] and rely to a certain degree on the limitation of things, often really good things are happening. Even if you had another possibility it wouldn't be better, but nonetheless you experience this limitation as a barrier. But I always think that any limitation makes your life easier.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the event, but the event had to take place simply because it had to take place.

La peggiore notizia – se è pubblicata su un giornale – con ogni probabilità non è capitata a chi legge, e offre un collegamento di rassicurante normalità con la vita quotidiana.

It was strange to realize that this was it, and it had happened to him at last, as it had always been destined to happen someday, and in an instant he was going to cheat to the back of the book for the answer to the greatest mystery of all.

Don't bother much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behaviour.

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

I definitely care about what's happening in our country. I grew up in a family that was very liberal and had very strong opinions about liberal ideas. I was around those thoughts and had conversations about those things and did the best I could to absorb what was happening around me and have my own opinion about it.

I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is part of you. If you can get it right, there's no mystery. It's not about mystery. It's not even mysterious. It's about our lives.

What seemed to be happening was that the change itself wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty.

Change is the only constant in the universe. It'll happen. Enjoy the ride in the meantime, be nice, and be prepared. When it does happen, rejoice!

Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!" Snufkin: "Fuss and misery." - from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip

Time unravels what happens within time.

a dark cave listening to Webs drone on about the ancient past? This is history, happening right now. We're in the middle of it, or we should be.

Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 — or by what is happening on our border with Mexico?