Happens Quotes

• I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • People
  • Happens
  • Miserable

• the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Different
  • Past
  • Wanted

• Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

  

  Wolf Blitzer
  • Reading
  • Television
  • Newspapers

• The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Book
  • Wonderful
  • Findings

• Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • People
  • Believe
  • Knows

• It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Feels
  • Jobs
  • Lifetime

• Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Process
  • Said
  • Ought

• Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Space
  • Memories
  • Happens

• Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens.

  

  Casey Hudson
  • Decision
  • Player
  • Made

• When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

  

  Estelle
  • Happens
  • Meeting
  • I Need

• Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Destiny
  • Same
  • Again

• Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Life
  • Victims
  • Respond

• For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian society. But you start at the local level, both at the workplace, community and other institutions and you reconstruct the egalitarian democratized structure as well as participatory structure. And as this happens, we learn more how to move toward the vision that is much larger than just the community level.

  

  Gar Alperovitz
  • Community
  • Moving
  • Workplace

• Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Man
  • Happens

• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  

  Mo Rocca
  • Laughing
  • Wedding
  • Beens

• I never knew that "Hank Zipzer" would happen in my life. It is one of the greatest things. It is like a gift from God.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • God
  • Happens

• Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Next
  • Conditions
  • Physics

• I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

  

  Mike Curb
  • Person
  • Really
  • Turning

• Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • People
  • Capitalism
  • Implicit

• Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Sometimes
  • Liberty
  • Happens

• When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional ideas for cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.

  

  Jason Lytle
  • Happens
  • Records
  • Accident

• The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

  

  Michael Gerber
  • Business
  • Happens
  • Startup

• You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and c, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Wise
  • Everything
  • Ugly

• If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

  

  Cassey Ho
  • Way
  • Enough
  • Happens

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