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 Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Charles Dickens

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Patricof

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Alan Paton

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Al Oerter

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

David Giuntoli

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

Charlize Theron

One thing can make many other things happen.

Donald Trump

If you haven't noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in many cases because their system is so slow. It's catastrophic in certain ways.

Garry Winogrand

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

John Coltrane

Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.

Rob Reiner

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

Usain Bolt

Every season something happens so I programme that in; something will happen.