Things Happen Quotes

1160 Things Happen quotes by 951 unique authors

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead.… — Albert Camus
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen,… — Gennifer Choldenko
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen.… — Darren Shan
I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having… — Maira Kalman
Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But… — S E Hinton
But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like… — Gabrielle Zevin
You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things… — Martin Amis
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will… — Robert Kirkman
Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel… — Seth Godin
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more… — Dalai Lama
My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression… — Suzanne Collins
Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180). — Rosamunde Pilcher
Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen. — Cecily von Ziegesar
But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to… — Per Petterson
I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things… — David Eddings
No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's… — Jennifer Armintrout
For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we… — Don DeLillo
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all… — Peter David
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It… — Kazuo Ishiguro
...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone. — John Taylor Gatto
Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like...… — Suzanne Collins
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they… — Meg Rosoff
When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on… — Mike Carey
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones. — Mercedes Lackey
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened. — James M. Barrie

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