“ What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. ”
- Paulo Cuelho- Copy
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“ Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry major, and found work as an apprentice writer of Volkswagen ads. ”
- Peter Carey- Copy
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“ If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
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“ All my life I've been waiting for this, and now it can happen. A Williams is going to win. ”
- Richard Williams- Copy
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“ Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short. ”
- Al Lopez- Copy
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“ An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ”
- Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ”
- Chief Seattle- Copy
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“ Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her? ”
- Bernard Berenson- Copy
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“ Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ”
- Herodotus- Copy
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“ Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
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“ If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. ”
- Joe DiMaggio- Copy
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“ Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ”
- Herodotus- Copy
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“ When you expect things to happen — strangely enough — they do happen. ”
- John Pierpont Morgan- Copy
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“ While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen. ”
- Ruth Rendell- Copy
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“ There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. ”
- James Lovell- Copy
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“ A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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