Happens Quotes - Page 40

• Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Use, Spots

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• Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Presentation”, p.539, Routledge

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• Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Writing, Imagination, Principles

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• If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  America, Laughing, Noses

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• When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Knowledge, Rooms

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Real, Causes

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• Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Judging, Goodness

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Good Man, Looks, Arise

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Worry, Want, Praying

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• The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Important, Doe

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• I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

  Jim Burke

  People, Found, Prove

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• Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

  Ennio Morricone

  Writing, Used, Score

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.

  Darren Walker

  Opportunity, Cities, America

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• We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

  John Dewey

  Practice, Liberty, Consciousness

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

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• To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

  Jerry Kramer

  Ovation, Kind, Offensive Lineman

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• I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

  Tony Dungy

  Player, Reality, Names

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• At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.

  Steve Smith, Sr.

  The End Of The Day, Groups, Ends

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• Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them.

  Anuradha Koirala

  Strength, Daughter, Children

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• The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

  Terry Brooks

  Character, Four, Want

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• Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn’t believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to - no, soar through - the occasion.

  Leigh Newman

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  "9 Almost Impossible Dreams You Can Never Give Up On" by Leigh Newman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Needs, Littles, Madness

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• The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agitation, Doe, Littles

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• Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

  Eric Hoffer

  Friends, Real, Believe

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• Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

  Michael Leunig

  War, Heart, People

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• It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

  Erich Fromm

  Destiny, Order, Years

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.40, Lantern Books

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