Things Happen Quotes by Eric Davis, Michael Franzese, Guy Gavriel Kay, Cristiano Ronaldo, Judson Laipply, Cab Calloway and many others.
If you don’t believe in something, you’ll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I’m a firm believer that where there’s a will, there’s a way.
People going into a business have to have a plan. It’s helpful to write it out, even if you’re the only one there to see it and execute it. It’s your bible. Stick to it, unless things happen in the market that cause you to change your plan. I do that myself.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that’s saying something.
For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out of that. I was really fortunate. For a professional speaker, it is all about press, publicity and PR, so to get that much free publicity … it made life a lot easier.
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t.
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
There’s a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they’re worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.
Everything happens for a reason, but they all lessons.
Something happens because something happens because something happens
Weird things happen when strange men run for election. See Donald Trump for details.
Great things happen when you converge services and devices.
I don’t think there’s ever a moment when you can actually say, “I found it.” Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It’s about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.
I’ve had people spit in my face. I’ve had bottles thrown at me. My house has been attacked. I’ve had loads of things happen. People have written to me saying they are going to find me.
If ‘everything happens for a reason,’ then every act of evil is ultimately God’s doing.
The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.
Gender is something that occurs in the mind, and sex is something that occurs, you know, everywhere else on the body. And whether or not those two things happen to align – well, if they do, great. If they don’t, also great.
I love when big things happen for Brooklyn.
Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can’t write a book of humor where silly, explicit things are happening?
Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.
I’ve always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.
Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.
Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don’t think like that. I never have expectations like, ‘When I’m 19 I’m going to do this, and by the time I’ve hit 25 I’m going to do that’. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.
I’m just always trying to be positive. Negative things happen to everybody. Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It’s what you do with those that determines how successful you’re going to be.
I’m attracted to that mix of things that are very refined and polished, and things that are almost accidental. I feel like the best things happen when you’re on the path to making something, even if where you end up is not where you thought you would.
I believe you have to make things happen.
The league is interesting because it’s evident everyone can beat everyone. And sometimes things happen you just don’t understand. This might be referee decisions or the running paths or passes of a teammate. It’s different than in Europe, but you have to take things as they are.
I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It’s not the other way around.
If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West.
Two things happen when you’re fearful. First, you make seemingly rational decisions that are actually hedges. Or second, you fail to do something because you worry about the consequences.
…things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.
Life’s unfair. You’re going to have things happen to you.
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.
When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen
Death is inevitable, but Life – that’s the tricky bit where things happen.
It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-’80s who really trusted one another and could really make things happen.
I left Barcelona because I was brave. Neymar arrived and I played less. These things happen in football.
We’ve just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.
We don’t understand each other. That’s why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding.
There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?
I don’t regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it’s part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.
There’s a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who – if you’re sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.
I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.
Things happen so quickly. We don’t have time for one person to tell everybody what to do. Everybody needs to know what to do in those situations.
I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that’s always the most satisfying.
A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.
My favourite player was Jack Grealish; top man! He is a naturally gifted footballer and for me, he is a joy to watch. If I could watch any player play, it would be him. He can do everything – he is exciting and tries to make things happen.
Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that’s on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.
Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.
I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don’t choose when these things happen, and when they do, there’s no doubt in your mind.
I find that I have painted my life – things happening in my life – without knowing.
I start with a character and a situation, but I don’t know what’s going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it’s never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.
I’m a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
Certain things happen in life that force you to take a pause and priorities are constantly changing. You’re meeting different people and things don’t always go as planned, but in the best way possible.
Perhaps your challenge isn’t finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
God won’t allow anything happen in your life if it’s not for your good.
Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people’s hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.
Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there’s this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud.
When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it’s for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better – ever so much slightly better – at error correcting than at error making, then we’ll make it.
When drum’n’bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.
I’m eternally grateful for the fact that I’m doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.
One of the few graces of getting old – and God knows there are few graces – is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what’s happening to me.
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.
I’m a football player and I have respect for every opponent, every defender and every team, but I’m not afraid of anyone and I’m not afraid to take them on and to make things happen.
The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I’m a positive person – when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.
Things happen for a reason. We’ll see where life takes me from here.
Actually the hardest films to make are comedies. In normal life, funny things happen by accident; to re-create those by design in a film takes real technique.
Something happens, you can’t even put your finger on it, and then you don’t quite feel the same way anymore. All of a sudden, there’s fights or something and you are going “who is this person?” I’ve seen this happen to other people and it has happened to me.
Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don’t begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In Britain, two things happen when you do that. Either you’re branded an intellectual, which is fundamentally mistrusted, or you’re branded a phony and pretentious, which people despise.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
It is not your work to make anything happen. It’s your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That’s the promise of Law of Attraction.
It’s our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.
Nothing happens without focus. Don’t try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.
To me 30 isn’t old. But it’s definitely the beginning of no longer young. Because you notice little subtle things happen to you. You’ll be in your car driving around listening to the radio and hear stuff like, That’s was an oldie from The Clash.
Let your voice be heard. Don’t stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.
The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It’s impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function – trying to put things together and make things happen.
Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
I’m fearless, I don’t complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.
I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.
Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying.
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying.
Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.
I don’t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you’re spending your time doing something worthwhile.
When I try to portray to myself my heart’s desire, nothing happens.
All I need is a camera and I’ll make things happen.
I like that I’ve been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It’s not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they’re deeper. I find that fascinating.
The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the body dies – it’s because something happens to the subtle body.
Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.
People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it’s actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.
If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.
I always try to make my things happen.
Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this is how your trust grows in the Lord whom you have chosen to follow.
Nothing happens until you decide.
You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason
It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?
The lesson of ‘CSI’ is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
I’ve dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That’s not to say I wouldn’t like to see something happen.
Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.
I’m a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it’s supposed to.
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation.
I think I was born ‘in to deep,’ and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
I think God isn’t interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.
If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.
Crazy things happen in this sport, and you have to be ready. And for me, luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
I personally believe in some sort of divine order – or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it’s with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don’t think there are accidents.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.
The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.
It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.
If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.
Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it’s up to you to decide how you’re going to approach the world…how you’re going to live in it, and what you’re going to do.
I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, “Action!” Because then I think, “Whoa, I’m really in the movies. This is a real thing happening.” I’ve never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.
I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I’d be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn’t even talk to you guys because I wouldn’t have to.
Cool things happen. Ace’s guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.
I also don’t believe that “everything happens for a reason,” which is in a similar category of world-views.
You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero. It’s instinctual, it’s something that you may not even realize is there.
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people’s money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what’s happening. What’s happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
A funny thing happened on the way to the election – I got to the Senate first.
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it’s because you’re talented.
Sometimes in a derby it is not always easy to see a very good game with big quality but the power of one derby means you can see good things happen after one result.
I believe things happen that can’t be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it’s healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
I like to make good things happen for other people. It makes me happy, and I believe it’s good for my business as well.
You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, ‘Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,’ or, ‘something I’m currently going through,’ or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, ‘Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.’ That’s my hope.
A lot of military people just take orders, and there is a place for that. But SEALs think for themselves from day one. That way, when something happens – a kid runs out of a room, a woman is held as a human shield – they can make those decisions on the fly. We always say: “Improvise, adapt and overcome.”
Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.
Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life’s primary virtues.
We’re repeating the same things all the time; there aren’t many new things happening in this life.
The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known – it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.
My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn’t getting paid for it, so I think I’d still be doing it.
I used to think that success was being the number one, being everywhere, being the star, and nowadays, I think that success is to make big things happen.
Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.
Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer.
If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.
There’s nothing sadder than when things happen the way you’ve planned them, because we don’t have a lot of imagination, you know.
I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don’t know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it’s just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.
Things happen, and you can’t make them unhappen. You don’t get do-overs, you can’t roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I’m sorry to tell you I can’t describe.
Nothing happens by chance, my friend… No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it’s how you bounce back from it.
A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you’re able to find a way to score runs.
I believe that everything is divinely inspired. Bad things happen – they do – but I also think that when these bad things happen, there’s an equal and opposite force that is happening, and there is good.
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
But that’s life. That’s what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.
If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves.
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.
In life a lot of things happen, you have to just learn to ignore them.
Things happen, but things happen and you follow… your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.
My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I’m feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me.
Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.
I’ve been an agnostic for as long as I can remember … so I don’t know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that’s okay.
I’m obsessed with the thought of making things happen… Ultimately, I do it because I’m scared. I don’t ever, ever, ever want to be poor again.
Show me who your friends are and I’ll show you who you are. It works for me. Stay positive and good things happen.
I don’t have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That’s our job, after all. But I think it’s incomplete, and I would even say it’s inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.
Things always evolve and change on location, especially due to the nature of travel and the waves. A lot of unexpected things happen. Often we get lucky, but we also find ourselves scrambling a lot, especially when we are looking for waves in the remote spots of those locations.
That’s the game of baseball – amazing things happen.
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
It’s better to not overthink and let things happen normally instead.
Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.
I’ve spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I’ve had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.
Things happen in NFL games. I don’t try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let’s move onto the next one.
That show, The Sopranos put HBO on the map. So there I was – and then there I wasn’t. Too bad. The same thing happened to me on Prison Break: I got the role of the governor on that, and then a handful of episodes later, I hanged myself.
Things happen in football and you have to be man enough that things come and go.
It’s funny how things happen in life. Sometimes, you just take the opportunity when it comes. Life can be surprising.
Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen
I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.
It’s strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there’s no music, there’s no dah-dah-daaahhs. There’s no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.
It’s a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, … Is it a reality next year You’ve seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask ‘How’d that happen’
I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You’re like, “Crap! I wish I hadn’t seen Ricky on the sidewalk!”
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere – one day something happens, the touches seem to ‘take’, the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.
The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.
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 bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, … Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people’s lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.
Things don’t just happen; things happen just.
Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.
I really believe things happen as they’re supposed to and in the time that they’re supposed to.
I’ve had so many rich, rich, beautiful things happen to me in my life because I do have energy, and I do reach out, and I stretch my eyes.
I realize that things happen for a reason.
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, “Oh I’m going to write about that. That’s an emotional event.” But obviously, if you keep going, and it’s something you do with regularity, you’ve got to find other ways to write.
Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.
Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.
God has left that for the rest of time and eternity in order to give us something to do in the hereafter. We’ll be able to learn more about the past and why things happened, as well as God’s logic and purposes and the meaning of it all.
If you want to make something happen that hasn’t happened before , you’ve got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.
To know that nothing happens in God’s world apart from God’s will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
Things happen. That’s what makes us human. But just acceptable and accountability and responsibility – I feel like people in this generation lack accountability, and when you can’t accept what you’ve done or you can’t accept that, then you can’t heal from it.
Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.
I’m inspired by other people’s creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it’s just wanting to know how something works.
I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. ‘Austin Powers’ came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on ‘Buffy’ and ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ came out.
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn’t happen.
It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.
Every time I see you with sunbae, I always feel unhappy. This time the same thing happened. Why is it not me but another woman? This is not the first, but the second time. I’m always like this. Just like a fool.
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That’s what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.
I don’t like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
Players have responsibility, and if they don’t do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don’t do their job, things happen.
Music is my passion so I feel like I’ll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I’ll still write music. So, I could write music for other people. I see myself making music for a very long time.
If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
There will be a lot of fun things happening. Looking forward to singing on the ship!
Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself
Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.
Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don’t want to talk about things, but with “Friends,” it was more fun when they talked about it.
I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I’ve seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
I just always had a knack for handling and passing the rock and making things happen.
Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people’s lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that’s where you get ‘Happy Birthday’ from and ‘Ross Capicchioni’ from or you even get ‘I’m Sorry’ from.
Happen to things, don’t let things happen to you
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.” “Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
Now the new things happening in France don’t interest me.
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that’s why they go ahead and play the game…You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it’s hardly ever what you expect.
Things happen for some reason. I don’t know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that’s it.
There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.
Somebody asked me at one stage, ‘Are you depressed?’ And I said, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m not depressed.’ But you know what? I was. I was, but I just didn’t realize it, because all these things happen, and you just don’t know how to deal with emotions.
Between you and me, odd things happen always on set.
If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.
I’ve never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.
When America doesn’t act, bad things happen
I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won’t take BS from anyone. And I think it’s making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in.
To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula.
Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.
Everything happens when it’s supposed to.
I’m really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.
See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn’t aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. – Percy Jackson
I kept thinking, ‘Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time… a show that got down to the ‘why things happen.’ Plus, I hated my job – I didn’t think it was very worthwhile
If you’re not ready the moment things happen, then you’re irrelevant, you might as well not go.
When you believe in something and you are a good person, good things happen.
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.
As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they’re supposed to happen and the way they’re supposed to happen.
I have a lot of wonderful things happening in my life.
There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything.” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens.”
You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
There’s something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I’m totally game and down for.
In reality, people are people. Age does a weird thing to your body on the outside. It makes your face fall and weird things happen all over. But inside, you’re the same person you always were.
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like you’re watching television — you don’t feel anything.
When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah’s permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.
Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.
And what? What’s the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: “Tut-tut, what at botch that was”? Don’t we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don’t we try to frame it so they’ll chose as we think they should?
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
If you’re trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don’t, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we’re incentivized to do.
There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
Science can’t tell you why anything happens.
All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about “For the sake of the song”; it’s all that mattered. In spite of me a couple of things happened, mainly the Eagles and Seven Bridges Road. That certainly helped me survive. Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, and Ian Matthews did it.
Instincts are learned on the football field through experience. It’s vital in sports because things happen so rapidly that you have to rely on your instincts at times to make quick decisions.
Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” – Carter to Georgina
We are all born with an open heart, but at some point as we are growing up, things happen in our lives where we start to shut down, like rejection, not fitting in, wanting approval, judgments, comparisons, and criticism of others.
A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.
So many funny things happen to me everyday I should have a TV show.
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
maturity … is letting things happen.
everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.
I’m able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that’s a great blessing.
If things happen it’s because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it’s God’s will that I be there, there I will be.
Positive things happen to positive people.
For the last five, 10 years, you’re seeing the best things happen on television.
We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art… Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
Well, that’s cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing
When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.
Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.
I think it’s the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
You can’t force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they’re supposed to happen. Everything happens in God’s time. I really believe that.
Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
So many silly things happen with a baby around. We laugh more than we expected.
The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It’s like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize – you know nothing. The only thing that’s guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.
My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.
When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you’re in a house, you don’t think about being in the house; you’re just there.
If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That’s a mistake a lot of people make – they think a year is a long time and it’s really not.
Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don’t understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what’s to come in the future.
You’ve got to be hungry – for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don’t think that there’s a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.
Now, I’ve never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you’ve just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you’re used to the things happening slowly in space.
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn’t structured around such things, except in beer commercials.
Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you’ve been holding back from… and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
Nothing is going to be handed to you — you have to make things happen.
A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don’t have any feelings for them at all.
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that’s just silly.
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
I think if you’re artistic in any way, you’re probably born with it. I guess it’s a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
If you haven’t noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in many cases because their system is so slow. It’s catastrophic in certain ways.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
It’s a funny thing that when things happen in an actor’s life, at some point it’s just a performance, at another, it’s a part of your life.
I’m not gonna buy something without planning. If I buy $100,000 worth of gold, I gotta put $100,000 aside for my family in case something happens. You look kind of stupid wearing all that gold and you didn’t have no plan.
The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.
I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.
Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature…. Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.
Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.
Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don’t. Don’t get me wrong: I have no regrets – if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn’t want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what “it” wanted me to do.
The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly – we only think it does.
When something happens people didn’t predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.
There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.
When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, ‘What else could I have done?
I feel like some of the best roles that I’ve gotten to play I could’ve never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it’s hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I’ve had I could’ve never anticipated or expected.
It’s just a joy travelling with your job. You get to wander around these interesting cities and then things happen or you observe things and you go on stage at the end of the night and chat about it.
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Then if something happens to remind me that I’m an actress then I become a little different and things become a little heavy.
I’m all about what happens organically. If something happens, it was meant to happen.
The only crying shame about it is, when good things happen to you, you run short of time. It takes the same amount of time, however, to tell people, ‘It’s good to see you again. I’m sorry we only have a minute to talk,’ as it does to say, ‘I don’t have time to talk with you’ period.
There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.
I’m very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.
In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It’s a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it’s hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
You can’t say, ‘You’re a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.’ Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.
A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.
Mind is infinitely creative. And when it’s not stuck, that’s where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.
I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.
I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I’ve got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won’t bite me when I come home.
The best things happen in the dark.
When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
A phenomenon occurs but because you’re in the middle of it, you just think it’s your life-until it’s over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the ’60s.
Everything happens for a reason.
I’m chasing my goals, and I haven’t been able to make things happen the way I want them to happen. It doesn’t feel good, but the answer is simple: I just have to work hard and to focus on cutting down the number of mistakes I make.
The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol’ Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I’ve been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I’m going to make it.
To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they
wish.
wish.
I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don’t seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.
I think good things happen to good people.
I think the best thing about my game is my vision. I see things happen before they do.
I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
Keep a thing happenin’ all throughout.
Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.
Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
I’ve known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It’s not about talent, it’s relentless drive.
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
It doesn’t help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it’s the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I’m one of those people that goes with it, and I don’t fight it.
In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I’m going to get outside the pocket and move … West Coast, East Coast. It doesn’t matter. I’m taking off if I have to, to make things happen.
I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.
If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.
I realize that things happen for a reason
When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.
Things happen in ‘If This is a Man’ that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in ‘King Lear’, or Conrad in ‘The Heart of Darkness’.
Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it’s difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.
Things don’t just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.
I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that’s what we are.
I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have to know what the director wants. Some are very much in their head, and I need to force it out of them. I just can’t play around for eight hours and see if something happens.
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
People make mistakes, and bad things happen.
If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.
As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable – the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.
It’s almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.
The air in Foxborough is just a little different. Like, Special things happen here. Winning happens here.
It’s the moment when you’re making the clothes – “Doesn’t this need that?” That’s how it comes. It’s not from, like, thinking for hours. Most of the things happen when you are in the fitting. When you make clothes, the fitting is the decisive moment.
We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don’t act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.
I often think of setting as an important character in my story. ‘Dark Powers’ takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich with watermen and historic atmosphere. I modeled it after a stunning little town called St. Michaels, but since a lot of bad things happen in Doncaster, I changed the name.
You could come out and play a flawless game and still lose to a quality team; you could do things right, but they hit shots and things happen.
They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.
I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.
Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.
I don’t think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it’s all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don’t think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn’t paid attention.
Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.
To me, the writer’s main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared – she’s right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That’s the theory, anyway.
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal.
I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.
When everything in your life is right on track, it’s easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It’s easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it’s very hard to hold on to that faith. It’s hard not to wonder who’s reasons these things are happening for.
I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up or speaking out in ways that resonate with one another. That resonating can be very compelling and lead to moving and speaking more emphatically and with sharper focus.
Interesting things happen along borders – transitions – not in the middle where everything is the same.
Things happen in a way that surprises. That’s why I’m reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.
Sex education pretty much taught me about how my body works, why certain things happen when I’m around girls, and what sex was, and I think that there’s a lack of clarity between sex and love – a lot of people think it’s the same thing when it’s not.
Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what’s going on in the external world. It’s not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can’t be passive.
I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it’s inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.
You know it’s easy to say you shouldn’t do something and then something happens and you say, ‘Wow, I wish I would have done something.
I am the most senior actor in ‘Devdas,’ yet I was not invited to Cannes. I guess these things happen in the industry.
I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.
I just keep getting inspired to believe that dreams come true and anything can happen, ’cause I’ve watched so many impossible things happen.
If anything happens to me, I hope that I would’ve raised my children in a way that they know how to take care of themselves. I want them to know how to make themselves happy. It’s important to work in a field that you absolutely love so that even when problems arise, you love what you do.
You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]’s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots – that can be very tedious. And so it’s only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.
It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?
I didn’t know who I was and I didn’t know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.
I feel God’s presence in my life, as a direct result of prayer. We say, ‘Why, God?’ when bad things happen to us. But I don’t know how anybody can live without faith.
I’m very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They’ve made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.
Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times – it’s ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn’t only a celebration when good things happen. It’s a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
It’s a noir world. Unfair things happen.
You could say that it’s in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.
I see the people in Detroit are very – they’re like a lot of cities, but they’re very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.
I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
The NBA tries to be about flash. But real fans recognize the guy who makes things happen.
Good things happen when you go for it!
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn’t help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father’s death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.
What happens after you die? Lot’s of things happen after you die – they just don’t involve you
I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo’s artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.
I’d just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I’d just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.
Let’s make something happen to this world.
When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there’s gray areas, then bad things happen.
Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.
I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen.
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen.
We’re not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn’t make sense
I don’t put myself into the category of ‘rock star writing his biography.’ That’s because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it.
Therapy isn’t Radio.We don’t need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.
Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.
The way you challenge Superman is by having things happen very, very quickly in different places and then asking, ‘Who does he save first? What powers must he use to save each person or stop each disaster?’ That’s one of the ways you make him interesting beyond the thematic and moral issues that make Superman.
I do know it’s great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it… Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it’s not just one person’s fault.
In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.
Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That’s when things happen. That’s when you find out everything you want to know.
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.
I try and write the way things happen. I don’t try and fulfill people’s wishes
I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else’s car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me
When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It’s just part of the sport.
My mother is a survivor who’s had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn’t revealed until much much, much, much later.
If things happen for the good, I say that Lord Krishna wished it so, and if anything goes against me, even then I say Lord Krishna wanted it to happen that way.
There may be arrangements to have me retired but I don’t know. Things happen that I enjoy doing, and as long as I enjoy doing them I’ll go about doing them, I guess.
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.
Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don’t regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren’t meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I’m extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!
If you have enough fantasies, you’re ready, in the event that something happens.
Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?
Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.
What turned me on then, and turns me on even today – and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I’d still be interested in it – is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He’s still alive, but we’re no longer in touch.
Photography is about being patient. I’m quiet, I watch the situation. I let things happen and photograph them when they happen; that’s my approach, although trying to anticipate events at a party with lots of people is hard.
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn’t have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.
Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don’t go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.
I’ve had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
Life ain’t easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.
I guess what I’m passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there’s no real solution to, and you’re only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.
We’ve passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.
The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
No great thing happens suddenly.
My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He’s playful, he’s full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.
I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.
A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.
Improbable things happen a lot…
We’re very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening-a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
One thing can make many other things happen.
I definitely made the wrong choices. I left Holland too early, I probably should’ve stayed one more year for my development, but these things happen.
I think it’s an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.
Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.
I don’t trust tragedies much. It’s easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It’s much harder to make a man laugh-what’s funny to one person isn’t funny to another.
I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy ‘Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?’ He said ‘I don’t know’. I said ‘I don’t want your job’.
He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life’s strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we’re punishing ourselves for some fault that we can’t really identify.
[I am a co – creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.
I don’t miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood – kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things.
Things happen overnight for some people, not everyone.
We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.
It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.
Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.
The place where you’re from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that’s out of control. It always seems to happen. But they’ve gotten better about the height of the rough.
People always go on about me being an inspiration, which is nice. But it’s an unrealistic pedestal to be put on. There are other people out there who have had things happen to them, not just me.
Things happen. Things change. It’s part of life.
Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!
Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they’re born somehow with that great passion – and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It’s the sort of thing you wonder.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I just try to keep an open mind, and that’s the way a lot of good things happen.
I’m one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
I’m intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person’s life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
Play in curiosity is where everything happens.
What would we be without the fans? They’re more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don’t react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.
I guess a lot of things happen still.
Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. В… We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
…your memories will be muddled and uncataloged – past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.
Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach the NCO for guidance and direction, and that NCOs can make things happen when a difficult situation arises.
September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.
Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.
I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn’t expect
There’s good and bad in every arena. It’s funny, some people, the reason they’re in the underground is because they’re lazy and don’t make things happen for themselves.
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Change doesn’t have to be hard, and healing doesn’t have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.
We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.
Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.
My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts… even when bad things happen.
Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He’s an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action.
Things don’t always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That’s when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.
Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that’s when good things happen.
I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.
You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, ‘Things happen for a reason’, there’s a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it’s gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could’ve never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.
I tend to over-analyse things. I’m not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.
We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today – that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.
A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.
The expression ‘there is nothing like the good old days’ does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.
You’re born and then you’re on your own, you start having relationships, you’re developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.
I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.
The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you’ll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can’t simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don’t complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something – good or bad.
It’s very rare to watch a movie and think, ‘That’s the movie we shot!’ So many things happen, with edits and things getting cut out.
Things happen on the field. It has happened between me and other players, but we always left it out there.
I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It’s almost as if they’re not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.
Everything happens for a reason and, of course at times it’s very discouraging, but at the end of the day you can’t take it personally and move onward because if you let it sit with you, then it starts to eat away at you and you’re allowing someone else to steal your excitement. No one wants that.
All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.
I did what most writers do when something happens that’s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn’t know what else to do about it except write about it.
I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
It’s OK to have nice things happen to you – you should embrace that.
I like when things happen organically and make sense.
Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don’t.
I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It’s demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you’ve got a cool action scene.
This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled.
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.
Things happen all the time and nothing ever goes the way you truly planned.
Everything is pretty good in my life, and like everybody else, things happen, and you put your head down and solve challenges.
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It’s made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom’s words and know that something better is meant to come my way.
I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.
There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.
If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.
Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you’re not prepared for that, it’s going to be really terrible.
Something happens to me when I witness someone’s courage. They may not know I’m watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I’m empty, and rock me when I’m low.
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
You have to realise that players change every year, just like we change because every year is different, as things happen in our lives.
Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.
People sometimes feel frustrated about what’s going on in our oceans and environment, and ‘Whale Wars’ shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.
Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.
One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren’t to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.
People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 ‘is involved’ or not (whatever ‘is involved’ might mean).
I’m just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I’m doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things get mixed in. All those things happen in reality.
People bring flowers and that’s pretty memorable. I actually got a rose from one girl. She was so beautiful! I love all the screenings to be honest with you. I don’t think I have gone to one single bad screening! Even if negative things happen, I turn it into positive reaction.
A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
I’m a believer in karma, and I’m also a believer that things happen for a reason.
Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything’s cool, and you don’t necessarily want to know what’s in it. The same thing holds true with movies.
Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like… But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen
…one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.
I feel like Chicago it’s so different, we have a different story to tell, we are seeing these things happen in this city every day, and whether you participate in them or not, you see it and get influenced by it.
I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It’s not part of the plot.
When you’re a good person, good things happen to you.
Nothing happens randomly.
The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they’re all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying – things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I’m still trying to figure out.
it’s been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don’t necessarily have.
If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.
Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It’s a bit more hood. You see things; things happen. I was bouncing between worlds. You’re acting from a very early age, when you have to code-switch like that. I’m a hybrid, a mongrel. I think many people live that life.
On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.
Things happen fast. That’s this league. You can’t slow down, because it’s going.
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.
When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I’d get to the front of the queue: ‘Yes, hello, I’d like to play that role.’ But you don’t. You just join a different queue.
Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.
The stardom thing happened and now I’m trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened… when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
Things happen every day. You can’t spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you’ve wasted your life.
When people say to me: “Oh don’t worry, if one door closes another one opens…” If one door closes for me, go through the window – I’m not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.
When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.
Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That’s part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.
Everything happens kind of the way it’s supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can’t control it. Looking back, you can’t say, “I should’ve…” You didn’t, and had you, the outcome would have been different.
Some people talk of writer’s block – you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there’s no such thing as writer’s block. It’s to the degree that you want to write. The thing is that these things show up whenever they feel like it.
Things happen when they’re supposed to happen.
As always, things happen sooner rather than later on ‘Arrow.’
I think that when something happens when you’re growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren’t as straightforward.
ThereВ isВ terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.
You can’t really explain why things happen.
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don’t receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.
Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.
I never wanted to be that person who leaves ‘SNL’ and nothing happens.
There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: “Everything happens for a reason,” as well as “you can change everything that you have control over.”
There is an important idea in psychology: The ‘just world theory,’ which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.
Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.
It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote does not matter or do vote and nothing happens.
Frightening things happen in solitude.
I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
I’m a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.
I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
Things happen and you live and you learn.
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens…. Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.
Sometimes when I’m nervous, that’s when the most interesting things happen.
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don’t know what this unconscious is.
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
Allah’s blessings is like everyday. I can’t do nothing without mentioning ALLAH or one of his words. I can’t do nothing without coming across one of his blessings or doing something and be like that’s Allah talking to me or something happen to me and I say Allah gave me that.
Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway – the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature – or you don’t.
A strange thing happens to me that I’m sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I’m not ‘me’ any more.
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
Money is the medium of exchange, and it’s how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.
There are people who just collect a bunch of footage and then edit it later. You definitely feel more protected when a director is moving on when you’ve actually felt something happen and you know they’re watching intently.
I’m a believer of destiny and I believe I’m destiny’s child. I’ve seen the highs and I’ve seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason – to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
I’m not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I’ll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won’t answer her phone within one minute. I’m sensitive.
I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.
Isn’t it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what’s happening to our inner cities. She’s been talking about it for years. As usual, she talks about it, nothing happens. She doesn’t get it done.
I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life… whether it’s sports, whether it’s in other fields, you have to realise that there’s always work to do.
What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you cannot provide incentives for the openings of accounts, but I think it gets to be a deeper issue of the value structure of any organization and the value of its leaders.
Nothing happens without personal transformation.
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.
Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.
I think everything happens as it’s supposed to. I don’t want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it’s seamless.
Something happens to people around fame and power and money – it can bring out the worst and best in people; it’s a monster you have to tame.
Zen is a study. It’s a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
If you have a lot of money, you know that you can make almost anything happen, but with a smaller budget you don’t have a lot of time or too many resources, so you have to conceive things in a very simple manner and make them happen fast.
Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn’t happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.
I am not a pacifist, however I do believe that the U.S. tends to resort to force too quickly. I am not referring only to the current administration; the same thing happened in the Balkans, and on other occasions.
Life’s fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that’s how I work.
Kids cannot follow stories. They don’t know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there’s no demand from outside the Capitol.
We can sit and worry about what’s going to happen to us two weeks from now. I’d rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that’s my job.
Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.
I work very hard, you know, but I don’t think that I’m working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me.
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
I’m from L.A. I’ve seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses.
I wasn’t expecting to be traded, so it definitely was a surprise to me. But things happen in this league so I just decided to take in stride and start a new journey in Milwaukee.
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
The way I write, I need to tell the true story. I can’t just make a story up. So I have to let the things happen to me and allow myself to work through my thoughts.
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
I’m a country boy. I hate New York. But that’s where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.
Sweet things happen. They still do.
Every season something happens so I programme that in; something will happen.
Bryan Habana likes to talk himself up before games and then nothing happens.
Shakespeare said: “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” Everything happens perfectly.
Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn’t have normally been interested in it
My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don’t even always notice them — that’s what life is.
There’s Catholic guilt about things, then there’s the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you’re not really allowed to enjoy them.
The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable.
The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.
The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.
You need to be a person who makes things happen.
When you kind of don’t care, for some reason, that’s when things happen.
The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town ’cause nothing happens here that doesn’t happen there.
The best things happen when you’re not overthinking it.
A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives
Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It’s an irony of life saying, ‘sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.
Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors
We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).
DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
I don’t go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.
It’s just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn’t want to write, my mind doesn’t want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
I don’t really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they’re going to happen.
I don’t pray because it doesn’t work. Prayer doesn’t fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.
There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don’t happen in the studio.
Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
We have bad things happen, but it’s not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn’t happen. We’ve got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.
If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.
I do like low interest rates. I’m not making that a big secret. I think low interest rates are good. I like a dollar that’s not too strong. I mean, I’ve seen strong dollars. And frankly, other than the fact that it sounds good, lots of bad things happen with a strong dollar.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.
Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, ‘Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?’
I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one’s life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.
In England, those qualities of playing it simple, being in the right position, reading the game, knowing the right moment to make things happen around you are not appreciated. Making a tackle, a run into the box – the spectacular things are more appreciated.
I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.
Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion of information and experience.
No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.
People who live in the now; those people make things happen.
You can’t make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.
I’ve gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I’ve wronged her and I’ve wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn’t just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.
I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.
You don’t stop living because bad things happen. You keep going.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don’t want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That’s just not me, that’s not how my creativity flows.
Sometimes things happen in life, and you kind of need a friend.
I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It’s not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It’s about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It’s about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.
You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart’s personal lemon zester.
If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.
Business has the unique ability to make things happen fast and at scale.
Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that’s the main reason I’m here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.
You can’t always trust your emotions. You can’t always trust your feelings. And I’m not talking about pain but I’m talking about more about life issues where something happens to you or somebody says something to you or somebody said nothing to you and you’re waiting for them to say something to you.
I’m not a legislator. I’ve never been a lobbyist. I’ve never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.
In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves – good and bad.
If bad things happen to you as a kid, it’s hard for you to succeed as an adult.
Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.
When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.
If something happens, you have to realize that you can’t just yell at people all the time.
I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.
Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.
I’m optimistic about our future as a party. It’s about winning. The Democratic Party, if I had to do one word: winning. We need to win elections, because one thing I’ve learned is that when Democrats win good things happen to a lot of folks, and when we don’t do so hot, we see a lot of chaos and carnage.
The political class can’t imagine a decentralized world where good things happen…without them. But in the real world, that’s exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.
You know, I’ve had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn’t as evident back then because they didn’t have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.
Relationships are everything. If you build great relationships you can make a lot of great things happen.
Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.
I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if I can tell THAT story well, then people will go and Google the rest and fill in what they need to know.
Bad things happen, but you can still live.
The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.
It’s creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.
I have to get out of bed every day to make something happen.
Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
(in Thief of Time)
(in Thief of Time)
I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they’re supposed to.
…things happen that are out of your control.’ Kerrick gave him a tight smile. ‘You mean I’m not omnipotent?’ ‘You’re not even semi-potent.’ ‘Is that even a word?’ Kerrick asked. ‘He probably means you’re impotent,’ I offered.
As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
Messi’s like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.
I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.
Really, the scheme is not going to win you a possession or even a game. You have to burn some calories and make some things happen.
Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
All things happen for a purpose.
A great teacher once taught me that you’ve got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.
I think everything happens in time. There’s a time for everything. There’s a time to be in a group, and there’s a time to be solo.
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.
The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn’t expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that’s honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.
I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.
Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.
That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen – your values and choices. That which happened by accident – what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school – is totally unimportant.
I don’t think you should reprimand your child for everything you’re feeling because for them it’s as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change.
I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens “by accident.” Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.
It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
I do like when you find a true personal relationship with any of the characters, you like to make that honest connection. And every once in a while, there’s that glimmer where you got that line in where something happens, where you get to really talk.
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
I keep telling these millennials it’s all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don’t care about whether or not someone is gay. They don’t care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They’re going forward, not backward.
Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It’s a little secret that you carry with you in public – the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.
I think things happen between people for a reason.
There’s a logic to dreams that doesn’t necessarily follow linear narrative. You don’t know why things happen, it’s your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.
Unless something happens that we can’t predict, I don’t think a lot will happen
People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.
I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we’ll be good.
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
I figure the world is basically a machine. I don’t know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it’s supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly… things happen for a reason.
If you want to play a game, go to where it’s played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.
Imagine people calling you to find out if you’re dead. I’ve led a real crazy life at times, and I’ve had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don’t happen. Someone’s in a movie; someone’s not in a movie. I’ve learned not to build my expectations.
I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can’t stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
If you are nice, nice things happen to you.
I really think everything happens for a reason.
A player cannot rely only on his name to make a difference but also has to work hard and make things happen on the pitch.
Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I’m in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.
You’ve got to have a dream… if you don’t have any big dreams, nothing happens.
Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it’s always about football. I’ve never lost sight of what’s making all these other things happen.
I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.
Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
But if I’ve heard this saying once, I’ve heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven’t found the reason that this all happened yet.
I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I’m willing to believe that there’s something pretty magical out there.
My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.
I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn’t done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we’re going to the Finals.
You better have an anchor in life. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you’re not anchored, you’re going to be washed away.
Everything happens through relationships.
The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance – we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.
The game is a game, and things happen, and you can’t always execute your plan as perfectly as you’d like to.
I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you’re dead, you’re dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don’t go to hell.
When you’re really having fun, you’re always doing it a little bit in a way that you’re not supposed to. That’s when great things happen.
Hollywood is such a fickle place, and you really have to go day to day and with the flow. Things happen so quickly, for the good or the bad. But you also have to know that everything happens for a reason.
In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
Power for men means the ability to make things happen … The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.
I’m definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I’ve gotten from everybody – from my fans, to people that I’ve idolized my whole life. So it’s overwhelming, it’s amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I’m in a really good place right now.
Nothing happens except by the permissive or active Will of Allah.
Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.
Nothing happens til something moves.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.
I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.
I kept thinking, ‘Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time… a show that got down to the ‘why things happen.’ Plus, I hated my job – I didn’t think it was very worthwhile.
If I’d have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It’s a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
Ive learned that everything happens for a reason, the yogi Krishnan told him. Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson… Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.
Synchronicites . It’s been said that coincidences are God’s way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: ‘I don’t want anything. I’m going to let things happen’
People who really have Ki don’t feel it because everything happens naturally within them.
Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.
The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t
Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you’ve brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don’t have a roof over your head for the night.
Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
The key is really just saying my brain isn’t big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.
The NHL is a fast-paced game, things happen quick when you’ve been out of action for a while and it takes some time to catch up.
If you’re an honest person, you’ll make mistakes, but it’ll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn’t feel was right.
I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.
On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.
Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
I love the outdoors and looking at snakes, squirrels, bugs – just going through the woods and being part of it. You can smell the different trees. And I listen. There’s so much you can learn by listening, by sitting and watching things happen.
The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.
Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.
You’ve got to love what you do to really make things happen.
A triathlon is on my bucket list. I started training a long time ago, and my life took a different turn: Things happen; work happens. I will definitely accomplish that at some point!
Interesting things happen in the dark . . . sometimes.
I believe everything happens under God’s plan anyway.
If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you’d see how much I’m really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.
When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.
The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don’t like that in much the same way that if you’re walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that’s why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there.
If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.
If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It’s not about his life.
When you’re in the midst of writing, it’s a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it’s not you, it’s the soul of humankind and so on, I don’t know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.
Some things you just can’t question. Like you can’t question why two plus two is four. So don’t question it, don’t try to look it up. I don’t know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don’t know.
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, ‘This is what I’m intended to do.’ The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can’t fulfill it if I’m out of shape.
Your ability to make things happen is what makes you different
Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen – and they have the channels to market
Only in the present do things happen.
There are tears. There’s laughter. There’s an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There’s so much about the brain that we don’t understand. I believe everybody’s empathic.
Even regular keepers miss stumping chances and miss catches. These things happen.
So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.
Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?
I just think there’s something special about staying with your team for a long time and fighting through the ups and downs. Then, when good things happen the feeling is better because you fought through the downs.
Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
I’ve come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus – I hope this doesn’t happen, but if something happened – my body of work is something I could rest on. I don’t feel, “Oh God, I have to hurry up . . .”
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again and again—finally turning into an expectation—then theories are overturned.
There’s always a chance that I might not walk away from a racetrack. I don’t ever want to think about that, but I’m prepared if something happens. I hope that nothing ever does. That’s definitely a risk. My wife understands that. I’m definitely at peace with what God wants me to do. I have a lot of faith in that.
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Always be patient. I also believe everything happens for a reason.
Believe me: The day [Barack] Obama goes off, and he leaves, and goes out to the golf course for the rest of his life to play golf, when they raise interest rates, you’re going to see some very bad things happen, because the Fed is not doing their job. The Fed is being more political than Secretary [Hillary] Clinton.
I wasn’t going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.
Shooting should not be about delivering something I’ve prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven’t planned, that’s when the film comes alive.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can’t stand books where nothing happens, and I can’t imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.
The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen.
It’s odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, “I have no idea how to do this,” something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don’t know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it’s fear that happens.
Nothing happens in the ‘real’ world unless it first happens in the images in our heads
I think for me, what I’m doing on set is I’m watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what’s the image we’re photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.
Special things happen when you center people who haven’t been centered before.
I’ve had a lot of hilarious things happen to me.
I think there’s so many things happening, whether it’s gender inequality or immigration, there’s just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.
When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It’s a survival technique. You can’t stand to be around when there’s so much grief or pain in your life so part of you goes away. Shamans call this soul loss.
I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.
I don’t want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
I think my general disposition on life is finding what’s funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, “What’s funny about it?”
I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.
I’ve played basketball all of my life, and I’ve had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on from. It’s part of some of the obstacles that you meet in trying to reach your pinnacle.
The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
When you have guys who know how to play, things happen quicker.
Things happen in the way they usually should. I’m a pretty fatalistic person.
Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
I think that the “what if” game is what you guys get to do. I don’t have to do that. I hate the “what if” game. I’m such a believer in everything happening the way it’s supposed to happen.
Everyone has their own struggles, but I never question the road I’m on. I’m a firm believer in the notion that “everything happens for a reason,” so even if sometimes you think you’re facing a problem, really it’s just a blessing in disguise.
You have to be OK with your own fears. If you’re an honest person, you’ll make mistakes, but that’s when the most interesting things happen.
I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.
One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can’t even focus our eyes.
Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren’t you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.
There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God’s secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.
I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it’s a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.
You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.
I think a lot of nice things happen when you’re driving, or when you’re on a plane, or whatever. There’s a certain freedom that comes along with motion.
I don’t believe in having regrets. I believe everything happens for a reason even when we don’t want it to happen. Every high and every low moment has a lesson waiting for you to find it.
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I’ve felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it… like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, ’cause some strange things happen. I’ve seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
I don’t believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.
Good things happen when you narrow your focus.
Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it’s financially challenging to do so. It’s like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, “Money is the key to life and happiness and safety.”
This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it’s more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.
Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it’s something you don’t do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn’t mean that’s how a game is being played at that moment. There’s more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it … but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don’t want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don’t see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.
Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.
Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.
In dream consciousness… we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
I knew my time would come I just had to stay focused and disciplined and if you work hard good things happen. I am right where I am supposed to be.
I want to make it so that so many things happen… that you didn’t expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.
We’re too complacent. We let things happen to us. And you don’t have to let things happen to you. You can affect change.
So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.
A director’s job is to make something happen and it doesn’t happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don’t bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn’t be doing it.
It’s a little bit about how I felt about Hail, Caesar! and now Star Wars. I could not have predicted those things happening to me. But I’m just happy they come along.
There were a lot of things happen in the mid-’80’s that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.
Everything that can happen, does. That’s quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can’t.
I don’t think I’m romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don’t really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.
After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.
I don’t believe in fate,” he said carefully, “but… I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.
Even in WWE, you believe it when it happens. Because anything can happen in the WWE at the last minute. Things happen, things change, and decisions are made.
Many strange things happen in this world
When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
Things happen, you have bad shooting days, the defense kind of figures you out.
You’d be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.
There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn’t something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!
I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.
In football, sometimes things happen that are outside of your control, leading the club to make decisions.
I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don’t really embrace it. I just say it’s a lucky day.
If you say to people that there’s less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it’s the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
Although I think I’m relatively happy as a person, I think there’s something unhappy at the root of all my writing. I’d say optimistic but unhappy. Nothing that’s particularly original, other than that we’re going to live and die, and terrible things happen.
Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It’s just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
I’m always trying to have a good time on set because that’s when things happen. That’s when you’re playful.
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don’t waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!
I don’t believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
There must be a reason that these bad things happen to me. I must be dysfunctional. So why would my dad leave? Why would he kill himself? Why would I be violated? And when you’re 6-years-old, you can’t comprehend that. But as you get much older in life, you begin to think what’s wrong with me?
Twitter fascinates me because it’s real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
On Shabbat something happens to the world – the world becomes infinite again.
The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.
When you have people together who believe in something very strongly – whether it’s religion or politics or unions – things happen.
I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date, and a lot of special things happen within those weeks.
Odd things happen in New York, which is why it’s such a great source of stories.
Epic things happen in soccer.
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.
I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
It’s just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that’s why I’m doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
I try and write the way things happen. I don’t try and fulfill people’s wishes.
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet’s tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.
When you’re listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it
Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.
My father instilled in me that if you don’t see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities – for success, for happiness, for really living – are waiting.
That’s the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don’t. This one is obviously just wasn’t meant to be. Except deep down… I still believe it was.
You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.
I’m flowing and letting things happen as they happen. I want to be living out of suitcases on the road. I’m open to the universe, whatever comes my way. I feel like a hippie – but hey, it works.
When you work hard, good things happen
Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.
Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.
When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.
When you’re watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it’s really good and then you think, “Why can’t I do that?” Or you watch a film and it’s not good, and you think, “Why am I doing this?” So either way, it feels like being at work.
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents… I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics – like, how many times can we write about the clubs?
I don’t have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it’s great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I’m constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
In football, things happen so quickly.
What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason – and it’s not to fail and die.
Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.
We don’t want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn’t vet these people properly?
Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.
I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen
There were the classic challenges any tourist faces, like getting lost, getting sick, losing things, getting in a fight… All these things happened numerous times. The only point of the trip that was defiantly challenging was a point that’s not actually in our film.
The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.
You have citizens who don’t understand how government works and they’re kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there’s teasing and there’s name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there’s serious bullying, and then there’s actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can’t put it all under the tent of bullying.
God isn’t about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He’s all about you making choices–exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won’t gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.
When I don’t have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
Bad things happen sometimes.
Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn’t necessarily another calamity.
Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.
When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.
I think now that I’m in the autumn of my life, and I’m getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don’t think I was that comfortable in my own skin.
The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.
The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.
I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens
I may be a public figure, but really, I’m just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind – -vividly, forcefully.
If you don’t go and do something in life, nothing happens.
Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.
When you’re on a sound stage and you’re shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy.
It a dude and a girl, and the house and wooo scary things happen and then they kill everything.
I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that’s because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn’t want to accept.
On a sunny Tuesday – for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday – six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.
There’s something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.
Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.
You can’t just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
The most exciting thing happening in business is the rise of vigilante consumers.
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
Let’s say you’re auditioning for a part or you’re going for a job you really want. You have to go in with a sense of self or you’re not going to get the job. You need your ego to get what it is that you want to make things happen in your life.
A lot of people who went to SC didn’t play ball – people who do films, lawyers and doctors, people who do things in real estate and business. There’s a lot of people that make things happen out here.
as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
I don’t know why we’re not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn’t it?
Good things happen to those who hustle.
I think that things happen for a reason.
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I’d have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.
The best days I have are usually days where I’m out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn’t really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that’s when I thought all the doors would open, but that’s when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.
You look at anything I’ve been a part of, it’s when the laboring, the fatigue, when some of those things happen, that’s what shows what you’re going to be.
When you’re happy at home, you can make a lot of things happen.
In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.
Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it’s like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We’re not on Earth by accident. Things don’t happen in your life for no reason.
Affirmations don’t make something happen; they make something welcome.
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents… I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
Heir to your own karma doesn’t mean ‘You get what you deserve.’ I think it means ‘You get what you get.’ Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion–for myself as well as for everyone else–rather than contention. [p.61]
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It’s not fair but then much of life isn’t fair. It’s how you live that matters. It’s how you deal with the bumps in the road.
When you don’t have any worries, it is better, but things happen in football, and we know we must try to resolve as soon as we can.
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We’ve grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
The cast you are working with is important because it involves a give-and-take relationship. For me, when you have strong performers, multiple things happen, the magic of creation happens. That’s where you build the craft.
I can’t sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it’s going faster and faster, but we don’t know where.
I had long periods where I couldn’t make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you’re not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.
Things happen to people by accident.
Any kid that feels like they don’t have any kind of future, whether they’re on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it’s all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.
Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.
