Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Shields

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Adam Hamilton

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

Alice Munro

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Alexa Chung

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Aron Ralston

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Jerry Lawler

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

Fay Weldon

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Gary Kemp

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

Charles Spurgeon

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Cherry Loney

The people who need to know have been contacted. We did an investigation. It has been determined some people needed to be notified. We identified who they are.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

Maurizio Giuliano

Whether this looming humanitarian disaster will be averted, will ultimately be determined in major world capitals.

Hosni Mubarak

We remain most willing and determined to do all we can,

Jim Yonts

Through intelligence sources we determined there were a large number of insurgents in that area,

John Mercer

We're really excited that we hung in there after losing the doubles point. I saw six very determined singles players today. We gave a great effort and I think this team grew up a lot out there.

Dmitri Mendeleev

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Edgar Bergen

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Bill Murray

Be available for life to happen.

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Tom Pecora

We're getting there. We still haven't had a night where everyone is playing their total A-game. But that's OK. I'm hoping that happens next weekend.

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?