Happens Quotes · Page 103

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

— Henry David Thoreau

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

— Rumi

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.

— Abby Wambach

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

— Duncan Green

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that?…

— Johnny Mathis

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before…

— Judy Grahn

Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this…

— Tito Colliander

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is,…

— Fannie Flagg

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the…

— Ann Beattie

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's…

— George Saunders

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in…

— Robert Greene

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up…

— Michael York

It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error…

— Ted Olson

Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on…

— James G. Frazer

And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an…

— Jon Krakauer

I often say that a lot of my job, as a screenwriter, is sort of being a stock picker, in that I…

— John August

I guess at that moment in time I had a certain... presence? A certain level of presence in the industry. But that…

— Keith Carradine

It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing.…

— Sarah Gadon

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid…

— Marina Abramovic

What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may…

— Amos Oz

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

— Amy Hardie

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

— William Scott

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

— Timothy Keller

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

— Mike Piazza

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

— Brendon Burchard

Let's get to a world where we don't litigate the aftermath, because it doesn't happen in the first place.

— Jon Shenk

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

— Jeanette Winterson

It happens that we DON’T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.

— Tim Rice

If you have a clear picture in your head of something that's going to happen... then nothing can stop it.

— Conor McGregor

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

— Jonathan Stroud

You can't expect everything to happen all at once when it's been such a male-dominated world for so long.

— Reed Morano

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

— Wislawa Szymborska

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

— Deep Roy

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

— Maxim Gorky

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

— Marcel Wanders

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

— Clement Greenberg