Happens Quotes
The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.
It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.
You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.
I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.
When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.
Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.
If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.
When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.
Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.
