What Happened Quotes

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point, I may feel the need to run for office again.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you. And so I don't know. I know there is condemnation, but I don't feel that's my place.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you!

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.

Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.