What Happened Quotes

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

Today something interesting happened. I died.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

Donald Trump is the president. It's not a bad dream. It really happened. It's like being dumped by a lover and also being stuck in a nightmare.

It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.

I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

America is not a special country by accident. It did not happen on its own. It happened because for over 200 years, each generation before us did what needed to be done.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

The happening that happened was that I met this girl.