Happens Quotes - Page 36

• I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

  Joe Lieberman

  Mean, Trying, Accidents Happen

  "Lieberman on Gulf Spill: “Accidents Happen” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2010.

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• A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

  Harry Markopolos

  Regulation, Scandal, Corruption

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• It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

  Beatrix Potter

  Country, Children, Alive

  Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

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• Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

  Javier Marías

  Important, Remember, Illusion

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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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• I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?

  Anne Frank

  Sorry, Eight, Long

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.94, Bantam

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• To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

  Michael Sam

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Courage

  "The 10 Most Emotional Moments in ESPYs History, From Caitlyn Jenner to Jim Valvano" by Lynsey Eidell, www.glamour.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

  Peggy Noonan

  Flower, Expression, Together

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

  Tracy Anderson

  Mom, Dancer, Ballet

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• I don’t have time to worry about the things that could happen. I am too busy thinking of all the happy things that have happened.

  Luke Jensen

  Thinking, Worry, Busy

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• Help people see themselves in your future vision to motivate them to help make change happen.

  James Kerr

  People, Vision, Helping

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• Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

  Madeleine Albright

  Morning, Trying, Get Up

  "On being a woman and a diplomat". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December, 2010.

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• I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

  Dan Winters

  Realization, Debt, World

  Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders

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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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• Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

  Arian Foster

  Doing What You Want, Patience Is A Virtue, Want

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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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• An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

  Method Man

  Kicks, Humans, Officers

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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, Things Happen

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

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Writing, Pleasure

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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• Match your goals with the people who can make them happen and start building the relationships

  Keith Ferrazzi

  People, Goal, Building

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• I've seen miracles happen with sound.

  Tom Kenyon

  Miracle, Sound

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• Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

  Anne Robinson

  Couple, Together, Glue

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• This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

  Jerry Stahl

  Pain, Believe, People

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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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