#happens

Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#done #generally #happens #i #me

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#could #going #happens #i #lie

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#day #decade #forward #go #going

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#called #could #degree #difference #doubt

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#bad #care #church #does #happen

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#best #contestants #dream #good #happens

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. ↗

— Tom Brady

#being #being happy #blame #choice #choices

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday. ↗

— Wayne Brady

#because #cancelled #everyday #happens #word