Happening Quotes
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Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.
Donald Miller
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You come to the sobering realization that things will never stop from keep happening constantly.
Andrew Hussie
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My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Mitch Hedberg
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
Denise Levertov
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With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
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“You’re Regina Luporum,” Ned, Master of London, had said. “Of course strange things are happening to you.”
Carrie Vaughn
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
Idries Shah
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I really love all my fans and would never want anything wrong happening to them.
Rithvik Dhanjani
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Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.
Antonin Sertillanges
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I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
Alan Alda
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When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
Michael Foreman
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What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.
Zoe Perry
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If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.
Alan Gratz
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To me, everything happening inside of us is political.
Marianne Williamson
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I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me; my friends; my family; my own feelings; or even things that are happening in the world.
Amy Macdonald
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I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes.
Michelle Gagnon
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not honestly know what is really happening in Libya at the moment but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family.
El Hadji Diouf
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I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.
George Zimmerman
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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I was quite surprised. As far as things happening locally, it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Phil Jackson
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When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.
Dennis Cooper
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You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.
Andrew Hussie