Happened Quotes
I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.
Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.
September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
I be yellin out money over everything, money on my mind then she wanna ask when it got so empty. Tell her I apologize, happened over time. They say they miss the old Drake, girl don't tempt me
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.
What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.
Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.
I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.
If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.
If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.