Happens Quotes - Page 38

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  What will happen will happen, what won't happen won't happen.

  Jim Harbaugh

  "Jim Harbaugh: ‘The high road’s the only road I know’". Interview with Eric Branch, blog.sfgate.com. December 22, 2014.

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• When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Perseverance, Jesus, Crazy

  "Bethany Hamilton; AnnaSophia Robb". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 31, 2011.

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• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Beautiful, Dream, Optimistic

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• I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

  Eve Ensler

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Eve Ensler on art and activism". "Books and Arts" with Michael Cathcart, www.abc.net.au. February 15, 2012.

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• The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Civilization, Renaissance, Certain

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• Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.

  Martin Feldstein

  Mean, Years, Months

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• A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Tragedy, Life Is, Tragic

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• 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.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Use, Spots

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• Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Presentation”, p.539, Routledge

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• One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Kids, Four, Diabetes

  "Skinny Fat People: Why Being Skinny Doesn’t Protect Us Against Diabetes and Death" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2012.

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• Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Writing, Imagination, Principles

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• If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  America, Laughing, Noses

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• I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

  Taki Theodoracopulos

  Hurt, War, Guy

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• When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Knowledge, Rooms

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Real, Causes

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• Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fate, May, Eternity

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Judging, Goodness

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Good Man, Looks, Arise

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?

  Rene Daumal

  Thinking, Climbing, Order

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• There is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

  Sam Childers

  Risk, That One Person, Unbelievable Things

  Sam Childers (2009). “Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No one really knows exactly what happens when we think, Therefore we can never really ever know anything...

  Eyedea

  Thinking, Knows

  "Song: ...Powdered Water Too (Part 1)". October 1, 2001.

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• Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Worry, Want, Praying

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• The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Important, Doe

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