Things Happen Quotes - Page 3

• You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

  Martin Landau

  Regret, Looks, Stuff

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• At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.

  Isaac Hayes

  The End Of The Day, Looks, Way

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• I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

  Rita Wilson

  Singing, Wanted, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

  Thomas Keller

  Careers, Made, Happens

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• The only thing happening in San Diego County is Eno and closet homosexuality.

  Kim Fowley

  San Diego, Homosexuality, Closets

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• There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Prayer, Our World, People

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• We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

  Gene Weingarten

  Believe, People, Monsters

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

  Damon Galgut

  Memories, Return, Happens

  "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

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• People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

  Christian Tissier

  People, Martial Arts, Feels

  "Aikido as an education system". Interview with Guillaume Erard and Ivan Bel, www.guillaumeerard.com. February 2, 2008.

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• What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

  Jennifer McMahon

  What If, Magic, Special

  Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, "I should've..." You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

  Rick Rubin

  Different, Watches, Outcomes

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2005.

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• I realize that things happen for a reason

  Karl Malone

  Realizing, Reason, Happens

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• Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mom, Everything Happens For A Reason, Littles

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• The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

  Alyssa Milano

  Beautiful, Baseball, Thinking

  "Alyssa Milano debuts clothing line". Interview with Mark Newman, April 12, 2007.

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• One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Two

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• Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

  Julian Barnes

  Should, Happened, Happens

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• Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

  David Shields

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Stories, Want

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Funny Things, Trying, Way

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• There are people who make things happen, there are people who
  watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
  happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
  things happen.

  Jim Lovell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

  Gus Grissom

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.

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• Something happens because something happens because something happens

  Jan Gehl

  Happens

  Jan Gehl (2011). “Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space”, p.75, Island Press

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• The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

  Studs Terkel

  Realizing, Excited, Active

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Things don't just happen; things happen just.

  Jim Rohn

  Happens

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• There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, People, Watches

  Herman Cain (2011). “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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