No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
I think if anybody is making a movie about your life something pretty incredible had to happen.
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.
That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.
Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease.
No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.
As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.
I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!
So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.
We have to be a democracy and demand certain things even after that individual gets in the White House. All those promises those dudes and women are making on the campaign trail, we gotta make sure those promises come to fruition and that doesn't happen by just voting and letting them get in and then falling back. Nah, you gotta be active. You gotta make your voice heard and be constantly involved in what's going on.
I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.
People tend to think that big things only happen to big people. . . I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. . . . But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.
If you think you can do it, your body will find a way to make it happen.