Things Happen Quotes - Page 40

• Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Hard Times, Matter

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• We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, People, Transition

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• Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

  Laozi

  Order, Action, Happens

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• I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Encouragement, Children, Powerful

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• Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Nice, Character, Divorce

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• For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it's not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.

  James Brady

  Believe, Errors, Echoes

  "Blog Rage" by James Brady, www.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2006.

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• A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Relax, Done

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

  Neil Oliver

  Father, Self, Luck

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs. I have had a lot of positive things happen in my life, but I also have had some negative things that are not so fun to deal with, and not only do I have to hear it from my friends, but also everyone else as well, so it is nice to have my friends there to help me get through everything.

  Miley Cyrus

  Fun, True Friend, Nice

  "Talking to Miley". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2008.

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• It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

  Clayton Christensen

  World, Corporations, Population

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  W. S. Merwin

  Writing, Mean, Caring

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Eight, Self

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• People going into a business have to have a plan. It's helpful to write it out, even if you're the only one there to see it and execute it. It's your bible. Stick to it, unless things happen in the market that cause you to change your plan. I do that myself.

  Michael Franzese

  Writing, People, Causes

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• I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

  Joe Bradley

  Excited, Good Things, Happenings

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that.

  Rajon Rondo

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Bigs, Believer

  "Rajon Rondo: 'I have nothing but love' for Mavericks". Interview with Tim MacMahon, www.espn.co.uk. January 5, 2016.

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• Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Thinking, Would Be

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

  Tyler Perry

  Honor And Respect, Giving, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Here I Am, Giving, World

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

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• You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

  Mirah

  Community, World, Disappointing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.

  Christiane Northrup

  Powerful, Order, Healthy

  "Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times Best-Selling Author: Growing Older Mindfully". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Fate, Thinking, Plot

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.

  Bernie Glassman

  Fall, Rocks, Wind

  Source: onpoint.wbur.org

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• I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Jobs, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Thinking, Arrows

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don't want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That's just not me, that's not how my creativity flows.

  Brooke Valentine

  Creativity, Eight, Want

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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