How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
William Glasser

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin