Things Happen Quotes - Page 5

• They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Reason, Happens, Happens For A Reason

  Song: Life, Love and Laughter, Album: Pass It Around, 2008

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• No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

  Robert Creeley

  Reality, Matter, Tone

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• Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

  Al Ries

  Change, Trying, Aircraft Carriers

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2001). “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.

  Rachel Kushner

  Children, Cutting, Years

  Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

  Timothy Keller

  Rip, Together, Veils

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• But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Real, Epic, Laughing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.

  Lloyd Banks

  God, Understanding, Progress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

  John Stossel

  Jobs, Real, Simple

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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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• 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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• 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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• All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

  Chuck Close

  Dream, Ideas, Long

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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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• When you think positive, good things happen.

  Matt Kemp

  Thinking, Think Positive, Good Things

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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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• 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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• Nothing happens without personal transformation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Personal Transformation, Coaching, Happens

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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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• To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Saint, World

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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