Happens Quotes - Page 24

• It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.

  James Agee

  Adversity, Choices, Rotten

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.115, Penguin

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• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Father, Men, Ties

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.18, tredition

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• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  Barry Bonds

  Ties, Things Happen

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

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• You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV. . . and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.

  Shannon Wheeler

  Thinking, Watches, Stuff Happens

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• I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

  James L. Brooks

  Moving, Character, News

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• Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

  Katie Couric

  Bangs, World, Sparks

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• We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and seeking that some people in it live twice as long as other people who are not in a support group. I asked David what went on in those groups and he said that people just cared about each other. Nothing big, no deep psychological stuff-people just cared about each other. The reality is that healing happens between people.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Reality, Long

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• When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

  Monica Bellucci

  Italian, Usa, World

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

  John Fowles

  Hope, Newspapers

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• It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.

  Debbie Ford

  Joy, Our Lives

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• We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."

  Joan Didion

  Husband, Self, Psychosis

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• I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Country, Years, Vaccines

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• All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Waiting, Pay

  Radio Address on Socialized Medicine, recorded circa 1961

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• One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Thinking, Lions

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• A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He associated with people from all walks of life.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.8, Multnomah

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• It does not matter what happens when we have gone.

  Madame de Pompadour

  Luxury, Doe, Gone

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• "I'm at your house?" Kody asked."You don't have to sound so offended. I do have people clean it, you know?""Sorry." She sighed wearily. "You have no idea how confusing it is to wake up in a strange place with no idea how you got there."Caleb laughed. "Sure I do. Happens to me frequently."She rolled her eyes at his frightening lifestyle. "Yes, but I woke up in this bed alone."

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Eye, Strange Places

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.215, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

  Noam Chomsky

  College, People, Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

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• Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Loving Life, Compassion, Giving

  "Mindfulness in the Modern World". Omega Institute interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

  Emile Zola

  Heart, Loving Life, People

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• I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.

  August Wilson

  Mother, Song, Art

  August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.10, Penguin

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Play, People

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