- Nov 07, 2020
Things Happen Quotes
Some things happen; others are made to.
This collection separates things that simply happen, like good encounters with strangers, from things people actively make happen through effort and intent. Related themes on shifting circumstances appear in Change.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two things happen when you're fearful. First, you make seemingly rational decisions that are actually hedges. Or second, you fail to do something because you worry about the consequences.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.
- React
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.
- Catholic Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020