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You don't look for these things to happen in Park Hills, but in today's world, it's here,


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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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KURT ANGLE You see these things in the paper, but you never think it'll happen to you.
CORA RAMIREZ It is frustrating for Joe but these things happen in boxing.
FRANK WARREN Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to set...
SUZANNE COLLINS The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.
AMIT ABRAHAM One of the things we've learned here in Research Triangle Park and Centennial Campus here is it does...
CHARLES HAYES That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
DEYTH BANGER I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I reall...
SELENA GóMEZ Dont look back in anger, I heard you say...
OASIS You’re meant to be here in these times. Actually, you signed up for this. You cannot fix the world...
AMY MCTEAR 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 I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
DOLLY PARTON Like [trainer Rick Smith] said, there was a lot of old leather out there.
TIM SALMON I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its streng...
JOHN F. KENNEDY You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND These days you must be feeling tired and your legs must be paining...Dont worry,...Its only because ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be patient.Everything will happen in its perfect time. You may try to find ways to get to your goals...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just when we were wondering why women dont get to become undertakers we noticed its the maneuverings...
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH Never disregard a person who u really loves u cause in todays world true love is hard to find ... Th...
SUCHER CHATURVEDI I am but a message in a world full of messengers
NICHOLAS JOHNSON There are two kinds of people in this world, those that watch things happen, and those that make thi...
RALPH M. DESIANO I feel bad for Sean. I know he feels bad about it and would like to be out here playing. But this is...
DAVE LITTLEFIELD Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.'
Sid:'I dont know about you guy...
ICE AGE sometimes you don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen.
JAMES DASHNER Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
FREDERICK BUECHNER I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious ...
JAMES VAN PRAAGH Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first tim...
JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN The whole file should be open. Let's look at the good that can come from that. If we understand how ...
BARBARA BUCKLEY Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
JAKE OWEN It was hard to take but these things can happen.
ALAN HALL A lot of times, when you see things happening in other cities, you think, 'what would happen here?'
ROBERT LOGAN Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we loo...
TED OLSON its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow...
JOHN GREEN What do I look for in a friend?
You!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar.....................
JIMI HENDRIX They let you believe that, in a world where bad things happen, justice will prevail.
JAN NASH You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT With so many people in the world i am confident in saying, if you connect with someone on a soul lev...
NIKKI ROWE I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
LAUREN MYRACLE You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the wo...
PAUL ALLEN You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what i...
TRENTON OLDFIELD I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make ...
ALEXANDER WALKER We would look for the people in Rosemary Park to decide what help they need.
CLIFFORD SMITH For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.
CECELIA AHERN There is a greater and greater demand for younger and younger kids. America doesn't look. People are...
ERNIE ALLEN Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I grew up here. These parks and hills were my playground, and I can't believe I never noticed these ...
GARY DARLING There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some ...
BRYAN WHITE And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush....
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way t...
ANDY WARHOL We're very bullish in the long term about Tablets. But a lot of things have to come together to make...
LESLIE FIERING I'd love to see a park for small children in each neighborhood. I don't think that's going to happen...
BUDDY ALLEN I lived here before, cold, lonely, clueless of why I still dwell in this place.Needing to forgive my...
TANICA S HALL With a current elephant population of 600, the (Shimba Hills) National Reserve is choking. The eleph...
EDWARD INDAKWA For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think...
DON RICKLES It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are loo...
DONALD MILLER For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly alway...
STEFAN ZWEIG Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosq...
KABIR [Ultimately,] We're very bullish in the long term about Tablets, ... But a lot of things have to com...
LESLIE FIERING The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep...
VIK MUNIZ These things happen, but you can see them coming before they occur. You can avoid these situations o...
SYLVESTER CROOM There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are...
NEIL GAIMAN Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough p...
LANGSTON HUGHES You don't know what will happen in spring training, but it was an encouraging board to look at.
BRIAN SNITKER We still have much to do in the aftermath of the tornado, but we are confident that Ellis Park will ...
STEVE SEXTON I would be surprised. (Savage) just came here and he?s a great guy and a great person. But things ha...
AARON SHEA Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) Just don't make it worst... it has happen worst don't change the shoes.
DEYTH BANGER People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around...
GARY F EVANS... Sometimes, God doesn’t make things happen in a sudden, but for a reason!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You open the paper and read these things that happen to people. Totally random.
TOM LEHMAN It's important in a situation like this to keep everybody positive. I've told the kids that things l...
DAN BROWN The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.
BEN ZOBRIST Cancer isn't the worst thing that can happen to a person. And neither is dying young. Taking life fo...
LURLENE MCDANIEL If you wish to learn the art of conversation I will email it to you
HENRY KIPLING I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No fo...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosper...
DAVID PLATT Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r...
ALBERT CAMUS It's never a good thing that these things happen. But if you are going to have a power outage, Wedne...
MICKEY WILLISTON History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a pie...
ARAB PROVERB Things might happen for a reason. But could you please explain me the reason why they happen?
EPHDAN It is just nonsense but these things will happen to the boy throughout his life.
SIR ALEX FERGUSON I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've...
JOHN PRESCOTT Like the butterfly effect, one thing you do changes the course the world takes. The world only spins...
BRENNAN PULVER We all live in hiding. In one way or another, each of us conceals pieces of ourselves from the rest ...
MARY SHANNON a park ranger is a protector. You protect the land from the people, the people from the land, the pe...
KURT CASWELL Crazy things sometimes happen. Do you get my drift? I can't say that everything in the story is comp...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I suppose these things happen
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.
BOB PAISLEY The rich makes things happen for people,but the poor makes things happen for themselves only.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
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I don't hate you."

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Percy ...
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RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
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RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.
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