The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.
Chris Van Allsburg

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Mike Tyson

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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
Dolly Parton

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
Guru Nanak

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.
Neale Donald Walsch

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.
Robert Mugabe

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Henry A. Kissinger

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
Earl Wilson

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul Kalam

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.
Kato Kaelin

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar Khayyam