Quotes About Happening

But a few minutes later, talking to me, he repeated his original point: the important thing was that it had not felt like a skua. "When there's a skua in the neighbor hood," said Rich, "you know there's something happening. It's a big, tough bird, it's a pirate . . . you can feel the excitement pouring out from it. You'll know it, for sure, when we see one.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.

We'd have to dance beforehand anywhere else but here, where rain is already happening, how simple it all seems to persuade the gods to bring their heaven down, to shower us with that most comfortable answer to a prayer; results before the fact.

In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

I have always thought of a myth as something that never was, but is always happening

She's been afraid for so long that now she can't catch up to the facts: it was already him, and the rest of her family. It really did happen; all those years of worry did not prevent it.

They explained their concerns and she said, "I feel a kind of isolation that you'll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what's happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn't want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

But I was always coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

What the hell was that?" he hissed at Montgomery. "A question." The duke reached for another piece of toast. "Did you mean to alert him to our investigation on purpose?" Apollo growled. "Yes and no." Montgomery shrugged. "I'm bored. Nothing's happening. Sometimes it's best to send the fox into the chicken house to see if a snake slithers out.

Mrs. Mitcham had seen more love about in the flat than she could remember during the whole of poor Mr. Cumfrit's time in it. She couldn't help wondering what that poor gentleman would say if he could see what was happening in his flat. He wouldn't much like it, she was afraid; but perhaps hardly anybody who was dead would much like what they would see, supposing they were able to come back and look.

None of the dogs seemed to sense what was happening

What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.

The words had acted like a charm. They'd released it all, in seconds. They'd made everything happening stand just far enough away. &emsp It was nothing less than magic. &emsp Who needs a passport? &emsp Who am I? Where am I? What am I? &emsp I'm reading.

The world, she said and smiled. Bounteous. But that's what it's all about, isn't it? What? he said. The world being bounteous? No, she said. What we believe is happening.

The question asked is not, 'What should be happening in my life?' but 'What is happening in my life?' The present moment, the present set of circumstances, the present relationships in our lives—this is where God lives. This is where God meets us and gives us life." — ALICE FRYLING

I could slip quietly out into the world and never be seen again. But life is never like that, is it? Things keep happening until you die.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.