Quotes of: Make-it-happen Keyword

Sometimes we will love people not for who they are, nor for what we gain from them but what they are. Those people that reflect a light. Those that make it easy to love, make us willing to give, and make us wanting to be in their presence.

Aisha Mirza

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Vernon Jordan

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunate...

Bruce Schneier

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The Complete Essays

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

The Collector

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.

Crash Into Me

Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving.

Crash Into Me

.....what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.

Cheer: A Novel

If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.--Catherine

The Caelimane Operation

It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad.

Captive

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

Crush

The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Drinking: A Love Story

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Don't Breathe a Word

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Everything Beautiful Began After

If you don't seize the opportunity, how do you know what will happen? Sometimes you have to take the chance

The Education of Hailey Kendrick

I read somewhere that every life is the story of a single mistake, and then what happens after.

Everything to Lose

What’s it like to be in love?”"It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you,

The Elite

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Emma