quotes about Things Happen
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
-- Adam HamiltonSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus
-- Al RiesSource : "The Classic Mistake" by Al Ries, ries.typepad.com. June 2009.
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Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
-- Alexander Payne -
Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
-- Ali SmithSource : Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.253, Penguin UK
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Play in curiosity is where everything happens.
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Everything happens through relationships.
-- Arne GlimcherSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
-- Arthur Blank -
You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
-- Ashley Smith -
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
-- Barry BondsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.
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I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect
-- Brian Eno -
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We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
-- Byron Katie -
People who live in the now; those people make things happen.
-- Cesar Millan -
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .
-- Cesare Pavese -
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There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.
-- Christian TissierSource : "Aikido as an education system". Interview with Guillaume Erard and Ivan Bel, www.guillaumeerard.com. February 2, 2008.
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If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.
-- Christopher Reeve -
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.
-- Cindy Gallop -
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.
-- Corey TaylorSource : Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.30, Da Capo Press
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
-- Courtney MilanSource : Courtney Milan (2011). “Unraveled”, p.108, Courtney Milan
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it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
-- Craig L. Rice -
Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.
-- Damon GalgutSource : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.
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There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.
-- Dan Millman -
We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.
-- Daniel Handler -
Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
-- David EaglemanSource : "Persistance Is the Essence of Creativity" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com.
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Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.
-- David Lynch -
You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.
-- David O. Russell -
When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
-- Deborah Norville -
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Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.
-- Diana Peterfreund -
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
-- Dodie SmithSource : Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.45, St. Martin's Griffin
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They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.
-- Donavon FrankenreiterSource : Song: Life, Love and Laughter, Album: Pass It Around, 2008
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
-- Eddie Slovik -
The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
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In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
-- Ernie Harwell -
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
-- Farrah Fawcett -
Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.
-- Florence Griffith Joyner -
I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.
-- Fred Durst -
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Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen
-- Fred Trueman -
The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
-- Frederick Buechner -
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
-- Gary Haugen -
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When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
-- Geoffrey BeeneSource : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I have never believed that things happen by themselves.
-- Gilles Duceppe -
I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.
-- Glenda Millard -
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Sometimes things happen that you never thought would. Sometimes you're just blessed
-- Greyson Chance -
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
-- Heidi Klum -
Meeting together, forming SS501 is the best thing happened in my life.
-- Heo Young-saeng -
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
-- Hugh PratherSource : Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.79, Conari Press
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You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.
-- Ian RushSource : "Liverpool’s Ian Rush: India Needs a Soccer Hero". Interview with Will Davies, blogs.wsj.com. August 29, 2011.
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When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen
-- Idina Menzel -
Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
-- Idina Menzel -
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One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
-- Isabelle Adjani -
Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?
-- James A. Owen -
There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.
-- James HiltonSource : James Hilton (2016). “LOST HORIZON - The Legend of Shangri-La: Adventure Classic”, p.49, e-artnow
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Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.
-- Jan Eliasson -
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Something happens because something happens because something happens
-- Jan GehlSource : Jan Gehl (2011). “Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space”, p.75, Island Press
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You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
-- Jay Maisel -
You need to be a person who makes things happen.
-- Jim Lovell -
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We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense
-- Joel OsteenSource : Twitter post from Nov 1, 2014
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I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
-- John Cale -
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
-- Jonas Salk -
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Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
-- Jonathan RabanSource : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.152, Pan Macmillan
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I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.
-- Kaka -
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All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen
-- Keenen Ivory Wayans -
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
-- Kevin Costner -
Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.
-- Kid Rock -
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Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.
-- Kobo Abe -
I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.
-- Koki HirotaSource : "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, p.49, 2003.
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Don’t just stand there; make something happen.
-- Lee Iacocca -
You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.
-- Lori GreinerSource : Lori Greiner (2014). “Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality”, p.258, Ballantine Books
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
-- Madeleine Albright -
Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.
-- Magic JohnsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.
-- Marc Andreessen -
Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
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...things happen that are out of your control.' Kerrick gave him a tight smile. 'You mean I'm not omnipotent?' 'You're not even semi-potent.' 'Is that even a word?' Kerrick asked. 'He probably means you're impotent,' I offered.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.
-- Mariano Rivera -
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
Let's make something happen to this world.
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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