Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan. – Jo Brand
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn’t happen in the West. – John le Carre
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. – John Barrymore
Gay rights is not something most of us think about – because most of us happen to have been born straight. – Jodi Picoult
I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I’m not disappointed. – Jerry Greenfield
The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen. – James E. Faust
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it. – James L. Brooks
I don’t have any fear of working with Samsung because I’m not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that’s just never gonna happen. – Jay-Z
Allthough that doesn’t happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines. – Jonathan Brandis
I don’t understand how it’s cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen? – Jose Andres
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen
Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That’s one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, ‘Unless there’s order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.’ And that sounds really scary. – Amy Klobuchar
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. – Colm Toibin
What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They’d have to be astronomical, right? – Bill Dedman
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. – Albert Claude
But what shouldn’t happen is, you shouldn’t have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not. – John Thune
I played on the Jets during Namath’s last four years, and we used to ask ourselves, ‘When is it going to happen? When are they finally going to replace him?’ We’d wait for it, week by week, but it never happened. – Burgess Owens
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. – Alfred North Whitehead
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? – Alma Guillermoprieto
