#happen

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#born #course #die #eventually #happens

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#become #count #excited #get #happens

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#biologically #book #community #community action #happens

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened. ↗

— Randall Terry

#committed #had #happened #i #like

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #attach #body #cells #death

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#comics #else #few #get #happening

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#character #ends #happens #oftentimes #other

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss. ↗

— James Belushi

#because #bomb #car #compassion #day

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.' ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#academic #adage #difference #grandmother #happens

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#bad #being #compassion #discriminated #ever