Quotes of: Happening Keyword

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

Michael Nesmith

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

If we can't forget, how can we forgive? I believe that forgiving can't be done by willpower alone. I can will myself to write out my own memories and feelings. I can will myself to imagine onto the page how someone else may have felt. I can will myse...

How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody, and it’s pitch dark, and I have absolutely no ...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. I'm not one of the worst, boss, no...

Zorba the Greek

You didn't happen to install Windows when you upgraded me, did you?

Codespell

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

Crescendo

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

The Commanding Self

The right things often happen for the wrong reason.

Deep Disparity

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Dreams Underfoot

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

Earth Abides

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

Engleby

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.

Fruits Basket, Vol. 22

Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.

Foundation

Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

The Fox Woman

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

The Godfather

He says everything like it happened to someone else.

The Burn Journals

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

Bayou Moon

This is War. Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously.

The Backwash Of War

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

J. J. Abrams