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That's something that should never happen. We've built too much up over the years for something like that to happen.


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LARRY GIANGROSSO Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spen...
JOHNNY RAMONE I've had this happen over the years where the student would not qualify for student aid and then som...
GUY FISHER You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about wha...
SIMONE ELKELES For something like that to happen in this day and age, something is wrong in this town.
JOHN DUNLEAVY I wrote for that back in the mid-1980s. Thats what got me thinking New England should have something...
BURT FEINTUCH Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.
CARL POHLAD After a tough streak like that, you're just hoping for something to happen.
JAROMIR JAGR It's just crazy that something can happen like that.
BRODRICK BUNKLEY You never know when (something like this) may happen again.
BIG BEN ROETHLISBERGER This is extremely regrettable and something that must never happen.
KAZUO KITAGAWA You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never d...
ANNE RICE There's not too much of a difference. Outdoor spikes add something to your jump, so I suppose you ne...
MATT FISHER We all knew that was something that just wasn't supposed to happen. We should have played better, an...
DENNIS DAVIS Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE I can't elaborate, ... We have been working on something. If something does happen, it should happen...
SANDY ALDERSON It seemed like every time we made something good happen, they made something better happen.
CONNIE YORI People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... For something like this to happen is just beyond words.
BILLY STALVEY I never thought something like this could happen to us. I became destitute overnight.
JENN GIEL We hope that something like this will never happen at Sky Harbor. But we are prepared in the event t...
DEBORAH OSTREICHER I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to ...
ALBERT CAMUS It never occurred to us that something like this could happen. We're just glad she was so brave, and...
MARK STERN Nothing is hard like waiting around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to giv...
GUNDO MULAUDZI I'm grateful that our daughter talked to us about this. You never think that something like this is ...
LUCILLE REYNOLDS I want you to know that once I get over this problem, I know it will never be the same. She can know...
DANIEL JONES Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
ALI SMITH It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also...
M.B. DALLOCCHIO Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will ...
MARILYN MANSON Thirty-five years ago I smoked dope and probably could have come up with something like that. To me,...
DARRELL BRYAN Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something...
ANN BRASHARES I told the ladies we had to make something happen. It was now or never, don't wait for someone else ...
DAMON SHAFFER I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
BILL PARCELLS Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to cha...
RICHARD ROGERS In between waking up from bed in the morning and going back in the evening, let something happen. Go...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou...
SOMETHING CORPORATE It's shocking. But I was waiting for something like this to happen.
BARBARA ROBLES It would be something to conquer -- something that probably won't happen again.
DAVID CONWAY To have something like that happen -- I don't know if we set some sort of a record for being beaten ...
ANTHONY GONZALEZ Ever since the train bombing in Spain [on March 11], there's been an expectation built into the mark...
DORSEY FARR And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or fr...
J.A. REDMERSKI To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it hap...
BOBBY BOWDEN When you're saying something that can never happen in life, that's not talking, it's dreaming.
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO I have never yet painted a location that something unique didn't happen. This is Spain.
JOAN MARRON LARUE Yesterday, I was feeling fine... I was into the mood of eating... drinking... but today... I am not ...
DEYTH BANGER This community has too much going for it, so you should definitely make this happen.
ALEX GRAZIANI I believe that turmoil of 1994 scarred the firm in such a way that it believed it needed a steady so...
LISA ENDLICH The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I ...
KHALED HOSSEINI This is something that I want to see happen,
TOM BARRETT My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
AYRTON SENNA Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen
SUKHRAJ S. DHILLON It was really like something was going to happen. It was kind of weird because I had never been thro...
AUSTIN KEARNS But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not ...
RANDY NEWMAN Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where...
TONY PARSONS I'm really shocked something like this would happen.
BARBARA SMITH Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They ...
CONNIE WILLIS The key is to constantly keep the audience surprised. If they feel like something is going to happen...
JAMES WAN The questions I ask I am not really supposed to ask. But I would rather be fined for asking too much...
JANET COOK I've never been more embarrassed. One of the reasons I came here was the tradition of Ohio State, an...
ANTHONY GONZALEZ Wow. We took great pains at every step of the way over the years to make sure something like this di...
KEN WILLIAMS something very special was going to happen on that day.
EMPRESS MICHIKO To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it...
BOBBY BOWDEN We are not precluding the possibility that something could happen.
LT. GEN. HERMOGENES ESPERON Anything that happens, happens.

Anything that, in happening, causes something else to hap...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
JOHAN CRUIJFF Dreams are like passing clouds but love makes the world stand still for something beautiful to happe...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE This incident is something that doesn't just happen at Stubbs. It could happen at any other school.
WENDY LAPHAM It's hard to really look at somebody and go: "Hey, maybe something nice will happen." You just don't...
LOUIS C.K. This is something you wouldn't trade for anything. It's an unbelievable way to win a basketball game...
LANCE RANDALL This will probably never happen, but the worst case scenario if the facility doesn't get built is th...
DENNIS BENSON She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tea...
ROMAN PAYNE You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Students should be prepared for anything to happen over the next year.
GLENN CAMPBELL He takes a big cut. Something can happen when he swings the bat like that. He's red hot.
THOMAS BERKERY I can't understand why something like this would just happen out of the blue. I would think that the...
DEBBIE WAGNER I'd like to see it happen for them; I just think its going to take a little while to get the cliente...
GARY YOUNG The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There i...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY We needed a kick in the pants. When you?re going like that, almost a third of the way into the seaso...
RON WILSON It's funny, because when I first met Andrei, I never thought that we could make something happen in ...
BARRY ADAMSON She is handling it really well, despite everything going on, and it's been so hard on her and her fa...
LAVINIA MANN CUMMINGS There's no reason I should sit around and wait for something like this to happen to my children, ......
AMBER DEAHN You never want to see something like that happen. The ball, myself and his glove all came together a...
BUBBA CROSBY It's really fun to see something like that happen to a person who's dedicated, committed and [who's]...
DAYNA POWELL This is something that you never imagine. This is a Wal-Mart located in the north sector of town, ni...
MIKE PENA It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.
JUDITH KARPOVA Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along...
JULIET MARILLIER Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare ...
JIM BUTCHER I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just h...
DEMETRI MARTIN That's the thing I never did. I'm very grateful to him and he was a good person. I promised myself t...
DOUG FERRARI It should be unusual for something like this to happen, but it's not because people feed them and th...
DAVE JENNINGS Its a very concerted effort with the city of Portsmouth, the state of New Hampshire, the FBI and all...
JAMES ADAMS This is the best. This is something I never dreamed of. I never thought this could happen.
BERNARD KERIK When I say something's going to happen, it's going to happen.
CONOR MCGREGOR This is typical of these world championships -- it's total chaos. It's ridiculous that something lik...
BENJAMIN RAICH There's obviously something wrong with him and it's hard not to feel a little bit sorry for him. Tha...
TONY CASE That's something that can't happen. Basically, our defense has been slipping.
MARCUS WILLIAMS It was shocking. You wouldn't think something like this would happen to him.
KIM EVANS everything in life happen for a reason something that you cant change whatever the out come is you w...
THAI LAN NGUYEN This is a great step and this is something that needed to happen.
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JOHN C. CALHOUN It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr...
JOHN C. CALHOUN True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and n...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country...
JOHN C. CALHOUN He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Unio...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to est...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never confe...
JOHN C. CALHOUN When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant a...
JOHN C. CALHOUN With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without th...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.
JOHN C. CALHOUN In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. Bu...
JOHN C. CALHOUN So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in actio...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slave...
JOHN C. CALHOUN When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
JIM ROHN