They Happen Quotes

118 quotes by 109 authors

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a… — Bill Gates
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they… — Karl Popper
Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they… — Frank Press
There is nothing to be intimidated about - it's just another long run where a few more people show up and they happen to wear… — Wess Stafford
Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream. — Oscar de la Renta
I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen… — Dani Shapiro
Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But… — Michael Brune
Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when… — Ethel Merman
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and… — David Foster
I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason. — Tracey Gold
I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and now she's straight… — Lucy Liu
Boxingâ€™s an art, itâ€™s a science, and you donâ€™t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to… — Roy Jones Jr.
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. — Jackie Gleason
An athlete needs to read situations before they happen. — Dwyane Wade
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember… — David Eddings
She's decisive, she's aggressive, she's proven she's capable with high-performance jets. We look for people with the capability to think on their feet and to… — David Leestma
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had… — Xenophanes
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. — Lucian Freud

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