Quotes of: Make-it-happen Keyword

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Cat's Eye

School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.

The Confessions of a Misfit

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The ones who do not believe, Dr.Mukherjee, think like me; just because we don’t know about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

The Covert Perspective

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put them together - but that appears to be what's happening with you

Cursed

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

City of Lost Souls

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

City of Lost Souls

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

Cosmo

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Code Name Verity

Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us.

Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Denial

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Dreamland

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

Death of a Salesman

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Dust

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

Dandelion Wine

I convinced myself that everything was going to be okay. This is what happens when you believe in in hope. Karma comes around and destroy it.

Dare You To

Are you afraid of the dark?” I asked. “No. Monsters aren't real. This is real. I'm scared of what could happen when the lights go out.

Exodus in Confluence

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.

Exquisite Captive

In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close