What Happened Quotes

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

Live in the moment and be present in all that you do. Don't worry yourself with what happened yesterday or what's going to happen tomorrow. Stay focused with what's in front of you.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further (biological) evolution.

Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened yesterday.

I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer.

Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone.

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

If you never noticed, it never happened.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.