Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t. — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me, — James Van Der Beek Copy Share Image
I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened. — Andy Williams Copy Share Image
I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
“Because when you don't admit out loud that something awful has happened, who is to say it ever did?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I… — John Dillinger Copy Share Image
I always wanted to see what America was like. I had that curiosity in my 20s when I was working in the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone… — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to… — Wences Casares Copy Share Image
The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different. — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The worst thats happened to you could also be the best thats happened to you. — Danny Rao Copy Share Image
“This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
As a woman, we should all stop talking about it and just acknowledge what's happened and act like we own the space,… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!" — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
It's funny, most people can be around someone and gradually begin to fall for them and never know exactly when it happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood! — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to… — Alan Ladd Copy Share Image
“Everything that has happened to others will happen to him, too. No one gets away.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image