Happened Quotes

• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perceive

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• What happened, and what might have happened?

  Tim O'Brien

  Might

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “Going After Cacciato”, p.205, Broadway Books

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• A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Memories, Two

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.377, The Floating Press

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• Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

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• Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

  William Feather

  Happens, Things Happen

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• The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Europe, Holocaust

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

  Deborah Levy

  Tense, Feels, Happens

  "Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy - review" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"

  Pierce Brosnan

  Looks, Hello, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

  John Stott

  Light, Religion, World

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• We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bangs, Mystery, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.

  Peter Breggin

  Thinking, Psychiatry, Liberalism

  Source: whale.to

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• I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

  Peter Breggin

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: whale.to

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• Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.

  Bill Ayers

  Struggle, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We were very excited and we brought speakers in – then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothers, one SDS person put up a sign with a quote from the Nuremberg trial and an arrow point at the marine recruiter, saying, "This man is a war criminal." My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

  Bill Ayers

  Brother, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society. They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.

  Bill Ayers

  Children, Thinking, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've been told over and over not to go on the Bill Maher show. Well, my best moments have happened on the Bill Maher show. It's been magic for me.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Magic, Goes On, Bills

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• At the Rose bowl, when America was playing Mexico, and those that live in this country who have come here from Mexico booed the United States - there's a huge problem with that. This is not the first time that this has happened and I think that, that is because in the United States the cultural Marxist ideas of separating people into different racial groups.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: latinalista.com

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• We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

  Erich Fromm

  Crazy, Mean, Men

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened.

  Keith Ellison

  Winning, Minnesota, Stranger

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Home, Writing

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a living. I said, "I write," and it seemed totally ridiculous in the face of what had just happened. I mean, I couldn't think of anything more pointless than telling stories. He asked, "What do you write?" I said, "I write children books."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Children, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think that people have great anger over what happened in 2008 in terms of the economy.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Thinking, People, Economy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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