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Quotes About Happen

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.
~ Christopher Paolini
Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced
~ Robert Burns
I enjoyed breaking down my matches, because wrestling fans really like to know what I'm actually thinking, and why certain things needed to happen at a certain time.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
On croit que ce sont des choses extraordinaires. C'est comme le reste. Comme le reste, ça vous arrive. Ensuite ça vous est arrivé. Ça pourrait arriver à n'importe qui.
~ Marguerite Duras
You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.
~ Marianne Wiggins
She said, "I don't know why I come here. That's a fact." He shrugged. "Since you are here, maybe you could tell me a little about yourself?" She shook her head. "I don't talk about that. I just been wondering lately why things happen the way they do." "Oh!" he said. "Then I'm glad you have some time to spare. I've been wondering about that more or less my whole life.
~ Marilynne Robinson
So it couldn't matter much how life seemed. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either. Most of the time she thought she understood things better when she didn't try. Things happen the way they do. Why was a foolish question. In a song a note follows the one before because it is that song and not another one.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Anything is magic if you don't understand how it happens, and science if you do.
~ Mark Clifton
Although there are occasions when it is more pronounced and awful and occasions when it is actually horrific, trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people. It is the bedrock of our biology.
~ Mark Epstein
Also people think they're not computers because they have feelings and computers don't have feelings. But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year, or what might have happened instead of what did happen, and if it is a happy picture they smile and if it is a sad picture they cry.
~ Mark Haddon
in this universe we live in. Stranger things have been known to happen.
~ Arnold Arre
Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said hysterically, 'People starting to come apart.
~ Shirley Jackson
But, goodness me, poor Theresa! What a dreadful thing to happen in Smithy's Loam!' 'Or anywhere,' Mrs Pargeter observed mildly. She knew that its residents tended to see Smithy's Loam as the centre of the universe, but murder did remain a relatively offensive crime even in other parts of the world.
~ Simon Brett
which we welcomed precisely because it happened to suit our convenience.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The hysteria can't last; be patient, and wait and see, he counseled his readers. It was not that he was afraid of the authorities. He simply did not believe that this comic tyranny could endure. It can't happen here, said even Doremus—even now.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Arousal is nature's stimulus for the propagation of the human race. The unaroused male of the species is as useless for that purpose as a worm. Arousal can happen sooner or later, but it must happen.
~ Sol Stein
Real healing begins in life, and real awakening starts to happen when we stop living through emotion and start living through love.
~ Sonia Choquette
Far-stretching, endless Time Brings forth all hidden things, And buries that which once did shine. The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered; And let none say, It cannot happen here.
~ Sophocles
My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.
~ Ira Progoff
I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
~ James A. Baldwin
I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should
~ Terry Pratchett, Nation
Mark Twain said it best: "I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." Think about that for a moment. Fear is rooted in what may happen, something that does not even exist in reality. Yet how frequently we allow this emotion to consume our thoughts, ultimately deciding the course of our lives
~ John O'Leary
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
~ John Wooden