Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Shields

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Aron Ralston

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Alexa Chung

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Adam Hamilton

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

Alice Munro

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Gary Kemp

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

Jerry Lawler

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

Megan Smith

Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

Laura Kightlinger

The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it’s better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.