I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone’s imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. ‘Back to the Future’ fulfills all of those daydreams. It’s the perfect movie.

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won’t happen to you.

And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

I happen to be extremely comfortable naked.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

You can’t really predict what’s going to happen. The only thing you can control is your work ethic and how well you do your job.

There’s a thing that happens to Midwesterners – we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don’t know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn’t say. And that is not very East coast

Love just happens, you know.

In baseball, as in life, the most important things happen when you least expect them

I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches – especially when you’re a child – it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

The pen is mightier than the sword

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

If you do nothing long enough, something’s bound to happen.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there’s nothing anyone can do or say. It’s broken.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn’t mean they are dumber than you

It’s so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn’t happen that easily. It just doesn’t. And so I don’t act up in public and I don’t do anything weird – because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

The land is ours. It’s not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people… Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

This game seems to happen so fast, it happens so quickly. I was glad to get back in the clubhouse and know that we had a win. That was the most important thing.

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

It was a tough loss. We had the lead, but things like this happen every once in a while. Of course, I’m very disappointed.

I guess … hard work paid off, so that’s proof for everyone out there, you gotta believe in yourself, good things happen to good guys, but it happens when you work hard.

Some stories are true that never happened.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

The nation that prepares for war will sooner or later have war. We get just anything we prepare for, and we get nothing else. Everything that happens is a sequence: this happened today because you did that yesterday.

You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.

Tell me what can I do to make it up to you? ‘Cause what we got’s too good to say goodbye

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to melive in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?

I don’t think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club…the rest doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care what happens on the outside.

If you want to hear God’s voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It’s love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally.

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that’s when good things happen.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you’ll find something solid to stand on Or you’ll be taught how to fly!

Fahrenheit 451′ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

What happens when we’re dead? The short answer is, ‘Nothing.’ The long answer is, ‘I don’t know, but I’m not in a hurry to find out

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

There are times pop music is the end result when I’m in the studio, but I don’t really go in and say, ‘Today I am going to make a pop song,’ but it can happen.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

She would consider each day a miracle – which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don’t feel guilty and accept the blessings.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn’t happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

I’m one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Always remember the proverb: “This too shall pass.” Your negative feelings won’t last forever, there’s a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you’ll feel better eventually.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they’re really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.

Can’t is the cancer of happening.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you react to it.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

I flew to the Moon not so much to go there, but as part of developing the system that would allow it to happen.

Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become

Things never happen the same way twice

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait, and be patient.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible.

If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, ‘Okay, this is the limit’. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

If I had read all this in a book, Harry, I think I would have wept over it. Somehow, now that it has happened actually, and to me, it seems far too wonderful for tears.

It has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.

Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn’t happen, but even my coaches have told me that it’s sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term

Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly.

The thrill of not knowing what’s going to happen trained me to be prepared for anything

Wake up in my bed, I just wanna have a good day

Think it in my head, then it happens how it should, ayy

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary

We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace

There’s something happening everyday, but I’m too tired and lazy to write it all down

So much has happened; it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down

The strangest things happen to you when you’re in hiding

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

I didn’t fall in love of course it’s never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

It doesn’t matter what you do because it’s going to happen anyway.

The expected always happens

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

If you dream you’ve got to dream that it’s going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

Was I always going to be here? No, I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.

I’m a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it’s supposed to.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was.

“From a small seed, a mighty trunk may grow

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I think the reality of prison is you don’t get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don’t give that vibe.

You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.