A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
Richard Pryor

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Xenophanes

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
Denzel Washington

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
Carol Burnett

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert Hubbard

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
Tom Hopkins

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Nora Ephron

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
Simon Travaglia

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
Joe DiMaggio

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie