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

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
Bill O'Reilly

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne

One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.
Christopher Walken

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
Herb Brooks

Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran Lebowitz

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Theodor Geisel

I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.
Michael Phelps

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
Richard Pryor

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
Joe E. Lewis

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Quentin Crisp

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
Bob Dole