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When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen.
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,
BRAD HINTZ J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
T. J. MILLER Overall the capital markets were not strong for the company [J. P. Morgan],
ANDREW COLLINS Great things happen to you when you least expect it.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN ...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.
LESLEY KAGEN If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us.
GARY HOPKINS Things do not happen TO you. They happen THROUGH you.
You are the co-creator of everything in y...
GORDANA BIERNAT When you can trust yourself, you can expect miracles to happen.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to...
C.K. KELLY MARTIN Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.
EUNY HONG The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.
BEN ZOBRIST Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY They happen only when you are distant,aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you ca...
OSHO Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN I wouldn't expect that to happen.
GREG AIELLO If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.
GEORGE HALAS I think our guys expect success. They feel like they should be successful. When you have good athlet...
KOBY ABNEY In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.
CHANDLER RIGGS No one is responsible for all the things that happen to him, but he is responsible for the way he ac...
UNKNOWN The problem with a pandemic is, anything you say before it sounds alarmist. There is a dilemma here....
MIKE LEAVITT You have to expect good things for yourself or they won't happen. I expected to be able to come in a...
STEPHEN SPACH None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way ...
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.
CZECH PROVERB When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone,...
DADA BHAGWAN If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
ROBERT COLLIER I didn't feel that great, ... Homers happen when you least expect them. That was the case there.
PAUL KONERKO I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
DODIE SMITH Some things don’t just happen, they happen because somebody decided to make them happen.
D.S. MASHEGO Life, at least with us, doesn't need to fall like a military drill. The way we do things, we don't n...
CARLOS SANTANA ...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention t...
LESLEY KAGEN Good things happen when you meet strangers.
YO-YO MA When you think positive, good things happen.
MATT KEMP Absolutely amazing things happen when you believe.
FREDERIQUE MURPHY People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way t...
ANDY WARHOL People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way ...
ANDY WARHOL If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.
ERIK HERSMAN You can't really explain why things happen.
BILLY BUTLER Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to...
EPICTETUS Prepare for the unexpected because it will surely happen when you least expect it.
LORRIN L. LEE Sometimes the greatest things happen when they have no rhyme or reason to. Life and logic might be a...
JAMIE SCHOFFMAN You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe t...
PAULA HAWKINS Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen sudd...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The girls have been putting the ball in play and things happen when you do that.
MIKE LEDSOME These guys turn and make things happen. And I expect nothing else.
BUDDY CARROLL Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
DEBORAH NORVILLE Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do ha...
EPICTETUS Things might happen for a reason. But could you please explain me the reason why they happen?
EPHDAN Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
SCOTT CAAN You pray for a lot of things when it begins to happen you don't notice it, but it's even more scary ...
RONALD ALLEN They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.
AL LOPEZ Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt
JENNIFER BROWN Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Un...
GEORGE PACKER There are two kinds of people in this world, those that watch things happen, and those that make thi...
RALPH M. DESIANO Out there things can happen, and frequently do,
To people as brainy and footsy as you.
And...
DR. SEUSS Bad things happen sometimes.
ADAM ANT I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
CLAIRE DENIS With their speed they can create problems and make things happen. But then crazy things start to hap...
DENISE NUGENT ...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I...
DODIE SMITH I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidenta...
HELEN MIRREN When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen
JESSE ANDREWS When you get Jessica on base, she makes things happen.
LISA DEY Basically they take things in stride. If it's going to happen it's going to happen.
DICK POWELL You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things yo...
RASHEED OGUNLARU Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that ...
PAUL AUSTER We played good team basketball, and good things happen when we do that.
KAWIKA SHOJI It really changed how we do things in sports. Certainly, nothing happened to preplan or expect what ...
MARK SPITZ Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your...
GENNIFER CHOLDENKO Conflict is going to happen whether you want it or not. People will butt heads. Sometimes when you l...
JIMMY BISE JR. When you have that amount of concentrated power, bad things tend to happen.
MICHAEL SHIFTER When you think small and up the middle, good things happen,
ALEX RODRIGUEZ Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
MATTIE STEPANEK I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work ...
KAWHI LEONARD Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
DR. SEUSS Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope...
JUDY BLUME That doesn't happen very often; everything kind of went to script. It all goes back to the job Morga...
LARRY HAYS Don't expect perfection, it will never happen. You can expect progress if you keep working at it.
JIM GENOVESE There are always things that are going to happen, ... Anytime you deal with 88 guys, things are goin...
ANDY REID The thing that we talked about is things happen when you take shots. We didn't take the shots and pu...
MIKE GURNEY That was one I did not expect anything to happen.
DAN WINZENRIED We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.
STEVE BALLMER Earl had a few, and it's going to happen. I don't expect that from Marlon. I don't say much to those...
JAY CUTLER I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
HEIDI KLUM They say two things happen when you get older. One is you begin to forget things. And I can't rememb...
MARV LEVY If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing t...
KYRA DAVIS Things always happen in the mines. And when they do, it's not one or two men who die. It's 100, it's...
GUADALUPE MEJIA When you play a team three times, you know exactly what's going to happen. We knew what they were go...
LOU POSTAGE It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are loo...
DONALD MILLER I didn't expect anything like this to happen.
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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.
J P DONLEAVY 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 ...
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