Things happen Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image ““Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen.”” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Things happen
“Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.” — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
“Words can get lost, become meaningless and fall away. And promises have a way of getting broken.” — Kate Stewart Copy Share Image
“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.” — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens on its own, you have to make things happen. If you really want to come out of your stressful situation than you… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image
You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens. — Ian Rush Copy Share Image
IVE LEARNED THE BEST WAY FOR YOU TO HAVE GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU , ALL THE TIME, IS TO DO GOOD THINGS FOR… — LEONARD PAUL ROSE Copy Share Image
Things happen on the field. It has happened between me and other players, but we always left it out there. — Gautam Gambhir Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Whether it is a small thing or big one, step-by-step you can make things happen. — Alex Zanardi Copy Share Image
But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just… — Jerry Lawler Copy Share Image
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way. — Naoko Mori Copy Share Image