Things Happen Quotes - Page 5

• In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

  Phil Donahue

  Reality, Important, Looks

  Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”

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• Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Football, Fighting

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• Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

  Saul Bass

  Interesting, Design, Creative

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• There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

  Coretta Scott King

  Men, Historical, Needs

  "My Life with Martin Luther King Jr." (Revised Edition) by Coretta Scott King, 1969/1993.

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• I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

  John Elway

  Believe, Blessed, Careers

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• We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Taken, Mean, Competition

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• Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Opposites, Wonder, Said

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• I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.

  Ciaran Carson

  Wall, Eye, Church Bells

  Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

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• It's so easy in life for us to receive blessings, many of them almost uncounted, and have things happen in our lives that can help change our lives, improve our lives, and bring the Spirit into our lives. But we sometimes take them for granted. How grateful we should be for the blessings that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings into our hearts and souls. I would remind all of you that if we're ever going to show gratitude properly to our Heavenly Father, we should do it with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength-because it was He who gave us life and breath

  David B. Haight

  Gratitude, Jesus, Father

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• Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Worst Nightmares, Doe

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• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Recap: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a desire to really make things happen and help people and give confidence back to the public.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best.  No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero.  It’s instinctual, it’s something that you may not even realize is there.

  Robert Glasper

  Hero, Order, Different

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• Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember - nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mistake, Want, Remember

  Sanathana Sarathi (Magazine), August 1984.

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• If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

  Kaka

  Great Things, Prepared, Happens

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• I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

  John Currin

  Sex, Ideas, Done

  "Lifting the Veil". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.

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• I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it,
  it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Sex, People, Entering

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• I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

  Young Jeezy

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

  John McGahern

  Journey, Calm, Life Is

  John McGahern (2009). “Memoir”, p.107, Faber & Faber

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• A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

  Susan Sontag

  May, Photograph, Proof

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.7, Macmillan

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• There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Purpose, Life Is, Make Things Happen

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• A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

  Issey Miyake

  Art, Body, Figures

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• All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again and again—finally turning into an expectation—then theories are overturned.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Issues, Interesting, Expectations

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nothing happens without personal transformation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Personal Transformation, Coaching, Happens

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• There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen.

  Michael Hutchence

  Brother, School, Australia Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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