History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.
I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.
I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.
It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
