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

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

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

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

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

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George Lucas

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
Mike Tyson

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
Julius Erving

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
Walter Winchell

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt Vonnegut

I feel like everything has happened naturally.
Ryan Gosling

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
Angela Merkel

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

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.
Kato Kaelin

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
George W. Bush

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.
Tracey Emin

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
Tracey Emin

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks