Quotes of: Things-happen Keyword

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan

Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that t...

The Aleph and Other Stories

if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the...

The American Storybag

I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen....

The Last Song

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a J...

Tropic of Capricorn

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pas...

Paul Celan

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigge...

Deepak Chopra

If we recognize that Spirit is all powerful, and cannot be hurt, and that only Spirit exists, then nothing that happens here matters. And we see everyone and everything from the point of wholeness. Even the ‘deceitful’ thing that happened is prob...

David Hoffmeister

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of v...

Anthony Bourdain

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time

The Alchemist

I make up as little as possible. I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all ...

Hilary Mantel

You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb

Fall Out Girl

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

Jeffrey Deitch

One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.

MetalMagic: Talisman

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

The Museum of Intangible Things

He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

Soonchild

Often, people hurt things on accident... No one plans on hurting anyone, but it happens.

Suddenly Royal

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Old Times

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

Dwyane Wade

Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more.

Elsa Pataky

I'm completely obsessed with Sunday roast dinners. I think that it's the best thing to ever happen to life!

Eve