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In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported... -- Allan Kaprow
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. -- Deepak Chopra
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote. -- Paul D. Boyer
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. -- Dorothy Thompson
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood. -- Michael Shermer
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. -- Eudora Welty
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. -- Edmund Husserl
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable. -- Emily Greene Balch
I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. -- Ruben Blades
And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. -- Max Born
After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny. -- Jhonen Vasquez
The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story. -- Suzanne Collins
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal. -- James E. Faust
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. -- Pierre Loti
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being. -- Jerry Saltz
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation. -- Brian Greene
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings. -- Sri Aurobindo
Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings -- Amit Abraham
While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance. -- Thomas Merton
She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings. -- Muriel Spark
I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular. -- Andy Rooney
Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life! -- Andy Rooney
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. -- Mark Twain
Love is where unseen and unsaid things merge with each otherwhere silence is thirsty of happenings -- Seema Gupta
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. -- Dodie Smith
There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend. -- Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them. -- E. Stanley Jones
Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you? -- Mariko Tamaki
The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.' -- Yamaoka Tesshu
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We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings. -- Ana Claudia Antunes
What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds? -- Jeanne DuPrau
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound. -- Eric Russell
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. -- Marvin J. Ashton
the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com -- Elyne Mitchell
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. -- Morgan Parker
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings. -- James Branch Cabell
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective. -- Alan Lightman
Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief. -- Will Durant
Just as I defend myself, therefore, From all unpleasant happenings however small, Likewise, I shall act for others' sake To guard and to protect them with compassion. -- Shantideva
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head. -- Mark Twain
It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important. -- Diana Gabaldon
The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data. -- R. D. Laing
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it. -- Philip K. Dick
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it." -- Philip K. Dick
My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight. -- Jeffrey Bernard
Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this. -- Perry Brass
Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility. -- Alex Dow
The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised. -- Anthony Giddens
Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you. -- J.S. Campbell
...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come. -- Marcus Aurelius
Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there. -- Truman Capote
Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition. -- Sam Keen
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue. -- Seamus Heaney

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