Happenings Quotes · Page 13

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

— Florence Griffith Joyner

When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

— Krysten Ritter

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

— Richard Leakey

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

— David Attenborough

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

— Erin Brockovich

You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

— Frank Zappa

You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

— Barack Obama

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

— Murray Leinster

I do believe that we are living in the last days. I know this has been said before but there are events…

— Greg Laurie

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and…

— Marshall McLuhan

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

— B. Alan Wallace

I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying,…

— Gary Lightbody

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and…

— John Green

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

— Dodie Smith

According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for…

— Jay Leno

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical…

— Jean Nouvel

I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing…

— Jeff Baena

I'm really showing the people what's happening. I'm showing them love. You're spending on guns and drugs and bombs and stuff like…

— Sizzla

The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains…

— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying…

— Joe Swanberg

I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like…

— Jessica Stockholder

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are…

— Jackson Browne

There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to…

— Bill McKibben

I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's…

— J. J. Abrams

We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our…

— Joanna Macy

People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the…

— Lizz Winstead

You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or…

— Owen Wilson

Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start…

— Anonymous

And I know, that I know, that I know, we are about to see the greatest manifestations of God's presence ever! A…

— Benny Hinn

Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.…

— Robert M. Pirsig

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

— James Hetfield

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

— Mark Twain

What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

— William V. Shannon

Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

— Joan Rivers

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed…

— Paolo Maldini

It [sex-ed] was such a slow rollout for me. I just didn't know what the hell was happening.

— Jen Kirkman

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

— Anne Frank

In most industries, technological change is happening at a rapid rate.

— Ken Moelis