Quotes about Happened
I had this dream. What dream. I had it twice. Well what was it. There was this big fire out on the dry lake. There aint nothin to burn on a dry lake. I know it. What happened. These people were burnin. The lake was on fire and they was burnin up. It's probably somethin you ate. I had the same dream twice. Maybe you ate the same thing twice. I dont think so.
— Cormac McCarthy
A good historian must combine the talents of the storyteller and the scientist. He must know what is likely to have happened as well as what some witnesses or writers said actually did happen.
— Mortimer Adler
Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.
— Jim Bakker
And yet he felt as if something had happened to him with regard to her. There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
— George Eliot
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
— Oprah Winfrey
A great event, miraculous as it may be, if it happened only once, will hardly be able to dominate forever the mind of man.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
— Julie Andrews
Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.
— Michael Wolff
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
— Edmund Burke
We should not ask, 'What is wrong with the world?' for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, "What has happened to salt and light?
— John Stott