#things happen

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. ↗

— Horace Mann

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To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used. ↗

— Issey Miyake

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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay "happened". I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened. ↗

— Mike Peters

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The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen. ↗

— Amy Ray

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To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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