Quotes of: Things-happen Keyword

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

Vijay Mallya

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

William Eggleston

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

Alex O'Loughlin

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

Adora Svitak

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

Jeremy Irons

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

Susan Hampshire

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

Kate Flannery

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Tom Colicchio

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.

Vincent Kartheiser

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you’re lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent’s preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it’s supporte...

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who is right or wrong, admirable o...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

To be able to accept everything that comes our way, even the things we don’t want to accept, is the art of Love. However, this acceptance isn’t to become conformists or martyrs. The art of accepting has to do with surrendering the need for contro...

Divine Union

Empathy isn't just something that happens to us - a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain - it's also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It's made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse. Sometimes we care for an...

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who de...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep d...

Before I Fall

MEMORY'S SO ONE MOMENT YOU'RE LOST IN A OF WITH POIGNANT CHILDHOOD , THE FLASHING NEON OF ALL THAT SENTIMENTAL ... THE , IT LEADS YOU SOMEWHERE YOU DON'T WANT TO ...SOMEWHERE AND FILLED WITH THE DAMP, AMBIGUOUS SHAPES OF THINKS YOU'D HOPED WERE CAN B...

Batman: The Killing Joke

It seemed that there was no time to catch up with all the things that were happening. I would be at the construction workers' demonstration one day and then marching with the welfare mothers the next. We got down with everything - the rent strikes, t...

Assata: An Autobiography