Things Happen Quotes - Page 15

• Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

  Ali Smith

  Art, Way, Happens

  Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.253, Penguin UK

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• To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they
  wish.

  Heraclitus

  Beautiful, Hands, People

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• My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

  Rickey Henderson

  Impact, Games, Going Out

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• Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

  John Calvin

  Secret, Creatures, Happens

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape.

  Rick Warren

  Design, Purpose, Shapes

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• Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!

  Ravinder Singh

  Wine, World, Wealth

  Ravinder Singh (2011). “Can Love Happen Twice?”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

  Drew Brees

  Fighting, Pressure, Disappear

  Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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• There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Shows, Right Now

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• You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present." Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Feelings, May

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• We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the only time anything happens. When we are awake in our lives, we know what's happening. When we're asleep, we don't see what's right in front of us.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Memories, Ideas, Might

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

  Gary Kemp

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Nonsense, Detest

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• If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

  Tom Upton

  Matter, Way, Flow

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• For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

  Ann Brashares

  Summer, Important, Reason

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.16, Delacorte Press

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• The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it’s better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Insightful, Sound

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• Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

  Charlie Munger

  Practice, Usual, Investing

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• Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  People, Monsters, Fame

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• The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.

  Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  Feelings, Important, Events

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• I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.

  Nando Parrado

  Good Life, Thinking, Winning

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• I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

  Ralph Lauren

  Good Things, Terrible, Happens

  "Ralph Lauren's Reign". Interview with Mark Seliger, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Christians aren't making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They're making a historical one; they're saying that this thing happened just as surely and really as it happened that Julius Caesar became emperor of Rome. It's the kind of claim that can be thought about and investigated; it can be judged.

  Greg Gilbert

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  J. L. Austin

  Latin, Austin, Done

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1956.

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• Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Boredom, Gusto, Should

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• Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Worry, Doe, Clock

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

  Peter Steele

  Pain, Suffering, Earth

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