Things Happen Quotes - Page 23

• It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Real, Ice

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Research, Psychological

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• I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

  John Hurt

  Sorry, Wine, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Gurdian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

  Carrot Top

  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, Trying

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• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Movie, Everything Happens For A Reason, Kitchen

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• So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

  Brian Mulroney

  California, Everything Happens For A Reason, Political

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• What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, World

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• But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

  Jerry Lawler

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Doe, Found

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• Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

  Paul Westerberg

  Light, Everything Happens For A Reason, Band

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• There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

  Bryan White

  Struggle, Successful, People

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• ...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

  James Roby

  Teaching, Learning, Class

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• I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

  Patti Davis

  Moving, Writing, Bedtime

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Elephants, Sick

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• Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Drama, Theatre

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• Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It's made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom's words and know that something better is meant to come my way.

  Amanda Bynes

  Mom, Disappointment, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

  Robin Sharma

  Reality, Giving, Want

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.38, Advaita Ashrama

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• Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Long, Luck

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

  Studs Terkel

  Health, Community, Action

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

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• It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. . . . I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don't really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through.

  Jessica Simpson

  Heart, Divorce, People

  "Jessica Simpson: "I'm in a Great Place in My Life"". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. August 3, 2009.

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• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Example, May

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• A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Meals

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?

  Theodore Dreiser

  Love, Rooms, Chemicals

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• I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen

  Ryan Hall

  Believe, Winning, Lines

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• When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Evolution, Speak

  "Man Evolving". Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.

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