When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.


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When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.
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Great things happen to you when you least expect it.
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...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us.
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Things do not happen TO you. They happen THROUGH you.
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When you can trust yourself, you can expect miracles to happen.
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The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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I wouldn't expect that to happen.
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I didn't feel that great, ... Homers happen when you least expect them. That was the case there.
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When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
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Things might happen for a reason. But could you please explain me the reason why they happen?
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Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
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They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.
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Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
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Out there things can happen, and frequently do,
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And...
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
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...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I...
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When you get Jessica on base, she makes things happen.
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When you have that amount of concentrated power, bad things tend to happen.
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When you think small and up the middle, good things happen,
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
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Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope...
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The thing that we talked about is things happen when you take shots. We didn't take the shots and pu...
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That was one I did not expect anything to happen.
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We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.
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I didn't expect anything like this to happen.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been s...
P. J. HARVEY
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blas...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the l...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's u...
P. J. O'ROURKE
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, R...
P. J. O'ROURKE
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding de...
P. J. O'ROURKE
There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the co...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitche...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled...
P. J. O'ROURKE
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, Wo...
P. J. O'ROURKE
You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don'...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is und...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'ROURKE
A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
P. J. O'ROURKE
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the sche...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'ROURKE
If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it w...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bl...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway inste...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Kids are disorganized.
P. J. O'ROURKE
People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers th...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'ROURKE
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'ROURKE
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
P. J. O'ROURKE
In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a popu...
P. J. O'ROURKE
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. I...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the Dist...
P. J. O'ROURKE
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with...
P. J. O'ROURKE
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in h...
P. J. O'ROURKE
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'ROURKE
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefull...
P. J. O'ROURKE
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ...
P. J. O'ROURKE