"Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you."
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"Everything happens when it's supposed to."
"What happens to a dream deferred?"
"Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it."
"We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not."
"It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway."
"The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen."
"Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most"
"I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose."
"Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them."
"Life happens not to me but for me"
"History is never surprising after it happens."
"I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part."
"What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other"
"Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen."
"It is what we fear that happens to us."
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
"Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts."
"There is my favorite quote that I ever heard from her [Lori Petty],... 'Things can happen to you, but they don't have to happen to your soul.'"
"Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over."