“The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.” PeopleWritingEndsHelpingPurposeHappenedAchieveWorstPleaseIncreaseMaking MoneyVolumeWorst ThingsPurpose Of Business Book:Treasury of Thought Source: Treasury of Thought
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.” PeopleIfsMadeRunningMistakeEconomyHappenedMovementIndustrySmartFundamentalsFinancialCreditCollapseFreezeBankruptcySmart PeopleDeregulation Author:Bill O'Reilly
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.” PeopleIfsMadeSaidRunningMistakeEconomyHappenedMovementFineIndustrySmartFundamentalsFinancialAppearanceCreditCollapseFreezeViewpointsBankruptcySmart PeopleDeregulation Author:Richard Posner
“People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.” PeopleThinkingMayMadeHappenedIronIron Will Author:Ivan Lendl
“There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so. It might really shock some people. It's an interesting part of my life, I hope it's in the book, I didn't check whether they put it in or not.” PeopleBookMightYoungStuffInterestingHappenedChecksShock Author:Katie Price
“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.” PeopleLiteratureHappenedSelf Deception Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where people are not allowed to defend themselves. While it's not the ultimate answer, the ultimate answer would be no violence, part of the answer is saying, "We need to allow people to defend themselves."” PeopleNeedsGovernmentWould BeRealizingAnswersViolenceHappenedBuildingUltimateIncludingShooting Author:Rand Paul
“All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.” PeopleStatesAbleTogetherHappenedRevolutionWorkersPocketsRepressed Author:John Lennon
“If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.” PeopleIfsThinkingMindWonderWorryHappenedInformationAmountConversationPicksMotiveAstonishingThink Of YouWorry Less Author:Pamela Druckerman
“This happened to the people. The Constitution says of the people, by the people, for the people... but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.” PeopleHappenedOfficeConstitution Author:Bill Cosby
“When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.” PeopleWayWritingSaidI CanProblemFeltTalkingCuttingHappenedSatOne TimeGeek Author:Paula Poundstone
“Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.” PeopleWantTryingStatesWholeBodyBigsFormUsedNamesUnitedUnited StatesHappenedCrimeLike YouConcernedStonesThickAshesCover UpsBurialGraniteChiselsCremation Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.” PeopleKindIdeasPerfectAttentionOpinionHappenedAdviceMediaCallingLovelyAll KindsNo IdeaOfferingProvoking Author:Cathy Freeman
“What happened was that for every $100 of money, by which I mean the cash that people keep in their pockets, and the deposits they have in the bank, for every $100 of money that there was in 1929, by 1933 there was only $67. The Federal Reserve allowed the quantity of money to decline by a third. While, at all times, it had the possibilities and the power of preventing that from happening.” PeopleMeanHappenedPossibilityHappeningsThirdsAll TimePocketsCashQuantityDeclineReservesPreventingFederal ReserveDeposits Author:Milton Friedman
“I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.” PeopleYearsImportantAgeMemoriesGrowing UpFiveGrowingHappenedTenTangible Author:Jello Biafra
“Whatever happened billions of years ago, that's what were we come from. For people who have hate and anger towards each other just because they've been socially conformed or socially... conditioned to their particular country, doesn't mean that you're not like everyone else in the rest of the world and doesn't mean you should go around hating everybody.” PeopleWorldShouldYearsMeanCountryHateHappenedParticularYears AgoBillions Author:Cristian Machado
“I've always liked the fact that I could make people laugh at crazy stuff that has happened to me. If it makes you feel better at me falling down the stairs...then I'm going to do it.” PeopleIfsFeelsFactsFallStuffLaughingHappenedCrazyFeel BetterFalling DownStairsMaking People Laugh Author:Sherri Shepherd
“When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.” PeopleMindFeltAudienceHappenedResponse Author:Franklyn Ajaye
“Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.” PeopleDifferentMomentsTogetherGenerationsHappenedTeamMembersFamily MembersDifferent Generations Author:Bill Simmons
“London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.” PeopleYearsProblemNextLinesFiveHappenedCarTenSolutionsHundredLondon Author:Terry Pratchett
“Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?” PeopleMenDiesPartyHappenedSurpriseOffensiveUnclesPearlsHarborsMassacres50th BirthdayBirthday Party Author:Christopher Titus
“I remember the day I saw my hair was thinning. I don't remember caring much. I don't care. It's just hair. It never bothered me much. I was pretty young, too. And it happened and is happening very slowly. I have a feeling dead people get really mad when we complain about losing hair.” PeopleFeelingsCareRememberYoungSawsHappenedHairLosingHappeningsMadDon't CareCaringComplainingI Don't CareComplaintsGet RealBotheredDead People Author:Louis C. K.
“You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSaidCareLastsHappenedGroupsDon't CareWitchHungLast TimeScrews Author:Iliza Shlesinger
“I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.” PeopleImportantBlackHappenedTaughtLessonsGladSwimBlack PeopleHurricanesTaught UsKatrinaImportant LessonsHurricane Katrina Author:Carlos Mencia
“The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindHappensThreeWatchesHappenedGroupsThings HappenDividedMultitudesSmall GroupsMake Things Happen Author:Nicholas Murray Butler
“Is that not ridiculous that people thought that Justin Bieber and I were on a vacation together, on a romantic vacation, in the Bahamas, and I just happened to wear a gown as my swimsuit and red lips and he's dressed in a suit in the ocean? Seriously who would walk to the beach like that?” PeopleTogetherWalksHappenedOceanRedLipsRidiculousSuitsBeachVacationGownsJustinRed LipsBahamasSwimsuits Author:Kim Kardashian
“I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarCitiesHappenedDangerousNew YorkZoneDangerous PlacesWar Zones Author:Alicia Witt
“Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot of all that seems to happen regardless of the paradigm and the high thoughts of philosophy. It has always happened. It is precisely because it has always happened that we go on wrestling with these issues in the hope that it can happen more often and for more people.” PeopleWorldPhilosophySeemsHappensJoyCoursesIssuesHappenedGoes OnPassionateProsperityWrestlingTendernessParadigmPassionate Love Author:Sara Maitland
“Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.” PeopleFeelingsWrittenHappenedCoupleOccasions Author:James Walsh
“It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.” PeopleYearsHumansDifferentKidsRememberYoungNaturalDealsHappenedHuman NatureOne DayCome UpHearingInterviewsLeaving MeSmall ThingsMe AloneNatural ThingsLeave Me Alone Author:Michael Buble
“Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanLongRunningPastWifeHappenedBabyHarderMy WifeShipsEngineersAlright Author:Al Barr
“I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.” PeopleYearsHappenedTenGreenCardsAllowingPermitGreen Card Author:Marco Rubio
“One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk.” PeoplePresidentRiskHappenedCitizensAuthorityAspectBillsIncludingEightBackgroundsChecksBarackRefugeeGangBlanketFbiPresident Barack ObamaAmerican CitizensVetsBackground ChecksSyrian Refugees Author:Ted Cruz
“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.” PeopleWorldYearsKindChildrenHappenedCrazyHavensThis WorldBabyMy FriendsAll KindsTragicFifteenFifteen YearsSad Things Author:Grace Paley
“I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened.” PeopleThinkingMenWantPersonsMightWantedFallCoursesFeltHappenedFieldsParticularMarriedCapableFalling In LovePlentyRealmsAbstractAccomplished Author:Condoleezza Rice
“When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.” PeopleIfsPersonsFactsMightAbleCompanyMillionsHappenedDrugTrialsUnexpectedSignalsRecognizingClinicalsFdaRegistrationDrug CompaniesSomething UnexpectedClinical Trials Author:Francis Collins
“People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidAgeFatherBornFourHappenedHeardTheoryMusic IsSymphonyConductorAffinity Author:William Shatner
“Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTodayArtistFoundOpportunityAudienceHappenedChangedInternetMusic IsDirectAlbumsAround The WorldBest ThingsFilesBetter WaysCdsDvdsDownloadsMiddlemenFile Sharing Author:Richie Havens
“Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.” PeopleIfsHas BeensBookSpeakHappenedJourneyFansParticularAppreciateUniversalRelateHardshipOpen Book Author:Kevin Hart
“If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.” PeopleIfsMenMindMatterWould BeGamesFunDifferencesRaceBrainHappenedUnusualGuessingBrain PowerSubtractionBookkeepers Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.” PeopleIfsIdeasStoriesAbleValuesLinesLeaderHappenedAccomplishing Something Author:Noel Tichy
“As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.” PeopleWellsShowsFoundHappenedMediaPersonalityNewsInterviewsAmusing Author:Ben Stein
“When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.” PeopleUsedSongBreakHappenedSingersCall MeHardshipFavouriteFavourite SongsFavourite Singer Author:Sonu Nigam
“It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.” PeopleTryingMotivationPresidentPsychologyHappenedGoes OnDadComplexesYour DadComplex Relationships Author:Jeb Bush
“People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.” PeopleMadeStillsSeemsMotherCoursesFunNumbersHappenedChangedMotherhoodPrioritiesHaving FunBest ThingsVioletBest Thing That Ever Happened To Me Author:Imelda May
“What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.” PeopleRememberHappenedBillsClintonPresidencySept 11 Author:Jack Straw
“People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingYearsChildrenPersonsSometimesSeemsCertainHappenedChildhoodStrangeStrangerAliensAlienationDecipher Author:Gunter Grass
“What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people.” PeopleWayDreamGovernmentSpiritNationsAnswersUnitedClearHappenedFoundersUnited Nations Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.” PeopleWorldWantFirstsWarAmericaNumbersHappenedTruth IsFirst TimeConcernedSignificantWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IRefugeeSignificant Numbers Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.” PeopleIfsWayWantCertainAbilityHappenedLimitsBunchScreening Author:Charlie Kaufman