Happens Quotes

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

She fell apart because that's what happens.

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

I think to a degree this happens when they [russians] spot a softness in us, which I think for a while they did.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screenings...Everybody knows that's what happens in Hollywood.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.

What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution, more frequent storms, or rising sea levels.

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare - and we'll see which happens first.

Here's the thing about global warming that I didn't realize: it would all happen at once.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

We all know what happens to celebrities when their time is up - rehab and then a stint on VH1.

Research by the Keller Fay Group finds that only 7 percent of word-of-mouth happens online.

Never try to out drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.

I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

I don't consider myself to be a media guy. It just happens to be that I've had opportunities in the media. I don't consider myself to be on a career path. I'm just a Christian and a Catholic priest.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

Improbable things happen a lot...