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Quotes About Happen

none of these things had really got to happen at all, since she could prevent them. The power of pure destruction was still hers. She could still make it death or glory.
~ Iris Murdoch
Do you really believe that? That it's wicked to love destiny? Yes. What happens is usually what oughtn't to happen. Why love it?
~ Iris Murdoch
Public opinion wouldn't stand for it," Gómez replied. "This is a democracy. It's not a dictatorship and it never will be." "We always think things like that only happen elsewhere," said Miguel, "until they happen to us too.
~ Isabel Allende
You never know the plan. You never know what's going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time.
~ Morgan Wallen
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
~ Bill Walton
For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
~ Madeleine Albright
American fans want to meet you, and they wait for that autograph by the stage door. In the UK, it doesn't really happen that much.
~ Jessie Ware
This 'investigative' report just shows that homelessness is a problem. Not sure what the library has to do with it." Another commenter wrote, "I have news for everyone: This stuff doesn't just happen at the library. Welcome to L.A.
~ Susan Orlean
Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like... But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen
~ Suzanne Collins
I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.
~ Suzanne Collins
Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where they strung up a man they say murdered three Where the dead man called out for his love to flee Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree
~ Suzanne Collins
The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.
~ Suzanne Collins
Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where they strung up a man they say murdered three. Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the
~ Suzanne Collins
This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents.
~ Gore Verbinski
I've got a secret for you, she whispered with n unpleasant grin on her face, Something terrible is going to happen. Something terrible... and something wonderful.
~ Neal Shusterman
In the league, anything can happen. Once one team gets momentum, things can change really fast.
~ Kemba Walker
At what point," he asked, "does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There is merely what happened, what is now happening and what will one day happen. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit – we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us. Gravity has a hand. Bear in mind trapdoors. We fall in love, yes? Tumble, in fact. Is it choice? Enough said.
~ Tim O'Brien
I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all. Fragility is also why anything at all can happen. Existence is incompleteness. This fragility is activated in what is called destruction.
~ Timothy Morton
coincidence they're there. They don't seem
~ Tom Brokaw
As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.
~ Tom Robbins
We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.
~ Tom Stoppard
I don't like the idea of being killed by fools. I shall have to ensure that this does not happen.
~ Kerry Greenwood
You can't make them unhappen. You can't just leave them behind, because once they've happened, they're part of you, part of your past, and their memories become part of your present, and their consequences become part of your future. Things that happen become you. And you can never leave yourself behind.
~ Kevin Brooks
None of the pieces that time has lost (singularity, direction, independence, the present, continuity) puts into question the fact that the world is a network of events. On the one hand, there was time, with its many determinations; on the other, the simple fact that nothing is : things happen.
~ Carlo Rovelli