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Quotes About Happen

C'è così tanto spazio lassù, è puerile pensare che in quest'angolo periferico di una galassia delle più banali ci sia qualcosa di speciale. La vita sulla Terra non è che un assaggio di cosa può succedere nell'universo.
~ Carlo Rovelli
The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is simple. It is rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now.
~ Carmen M. Reinhart
I sighed rapturously. It was a wonderful story, and might well be true. Even it if wasn't true, it was the sort of thing that should happen
~ Gerald Durrell
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
~ Honore de Balzac
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there are signs that strange things happen, though they do not emerge
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Murder could happen, she thought as she drove to Cop Central, to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
~ J.D. Robb
'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
~ Carlton Cuse
Our Savior's birth is the ultimate reminder that miracles happen and often when we don't expect them.
~ Kevin Brady
Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no, I'm a professional. I'm just saying that can happen.
~ Timothy Olyphant
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
~ William Gibson, Spook Country
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
~ Jane Austen
Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.
~ Tana French
My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.
~ Jens Lekman
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
~ David Frum
In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.
~ Murray Rothbard
If he weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I think the biggest challenge is going to be finding a place that sells comics. Ideally, you want someone to come out of a movie theater, look across the street, see a newsstand, walk in and find a copy of the 'X-Men' sitting there. But that's not what's going to happen.
~ Chris Claremont
We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's not something that just happens - one in a million shot - all those things that just make you feel like it'll never happen.
~ Clairo
I'd been to Nashville a few times before, but never thought something like this would happen. It's a dream to sign with Atlantic and Big Loud.
~ Mason Ramsey
Wariness crept into her eyes, into her expression. Her tongue touched her bottom lip, that full bottom lip he wanted to bite. He dreamt of biting it. Now it was going to happen
~ Christine Feehan
What can you do for my hearing? Your little medicinal concoctions have increased my hearing to the point of absurdity." She arched an eyebrow at him. "Do you have any idea what else is going to happen to me?" His teeth grazed the back of her neck, his fingers brushed across her breast possessively. "I have all kinds of ideas, little one.
~ Christine Feehan
There can be no doubt that the cult of death and the insistence upon portents of the end proceed from surreptitious desire to see it happen, and to put an end to the anxiety and doubt that always threaten the hold of faith.
~ Christopher Hitchens
To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.
~ Christopher Isherwood