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Quotes About Happened

Things happened in life that mothers could not prevent or fix.
~ Joan Didion
And the truth cannot be hid; Somebody chose their pain, What needn't have happened did.
~ W.H. Auden
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
~ Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.
~ Primo Levi
Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened.
~ Dean Koontz
Had it really happened, that memory? Or was it only his desire that now and then brought her so vividly to life, in snatched moments that left him desperate with longing but strangely comforted, as though she had in fact touched him briefly?
~ Diana Gabaldon
all of this is such a long and dark and untellable story (untellable as all stories are). Meanwhile, one can only hold onto what is tangible and look at one's fingers, try to look into someone's eyes, and write down the sentences that are spoken, so that something is said by which one can begin to glimpse what really happened.
~ Unknown
History alone – the sum of empirically discoverable data – held the key to the mystery of why what happened happened as it did and not otherwise; and only history, consequently, could throw light on the fundamental ethical problems which obsessed him as they did every Russian thinker in the nineteenth century.
~ Isaiah Berlin
We were peering into this darkness, crisscrossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing
~ Italo Calvino
If action scenes just happen decontextualized, they lose their weight and the viewer can feel they don't make sense and that they wouldn't have happened that way.
~ Lisa Joy
There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.
~ John Trudell
Finally, 'Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu' happened. The director had doubts if a city-bred, fair-looking boy would fit the role of a village kabbadi player.
~ Vishnu Vishal
It seemed like a coincidence, but in Gamache's experience, almost everything that happened was the end result of a series of apparently unconnected events. Often set in motion years earlier. Remove one, and the thing did not happen.
~ Louise Penny
There was no way I could explain that it had all happened so fast, that I wasn't smiling away at the cats chewing the birds. It was that my happiness about the sweet peas and the finches hadn't had time to fade. As
~ Unknown
I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.
~ Karrie Webb
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
~ Anne Enright
Everything that has happened drives me in that direction, theoretically. But I don't feel reduced by my abstinence, as I did in the past. The craving is gone and maybe this is what reduces me. •
~ Don DeLillo
Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened, even if they haven't happened any more. Well, if I concentrate. The new reality-the real reality- keeps asserting itself, even with me. But the other time line leaves echoes, ripples, if you look hard enough.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
Most movies are like predigested food because they are mere reenactments of something that happened (if ever) back in the scripting stage.
~ James Agee
She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.
~ Luke Davies
Several things happened at once then. Achilles - for it was Achilles - dropped Deidameia's hand and flung himself joyously at me, knocking me backwards with the force of his embrace.
~ Madeline Miller
Greg left the boat and walked along the pier. He found a bench overlooking the bay and sat there for a long time, cursing himself for what had happened. A dark little conspiracy had suddenly become far more dangerous.
~ John Grisham
She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened.
~ John Irving
Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.
~ Jay Hernandez