#happen

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Plato

#destinies #happening #legislate #man #never

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#change #day #difference #done #get

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#around #away #components #different #happens

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#finally #happens #long #long run #overtakes

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#determined #gets #government #happening #home

I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#diminishing #gains #had #happened #i

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#because #fail #go #happens #large

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#changes #decided #during #family #had