“Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.” HappensHappeningsDisasterGrieving Author:Rumi
“What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.” IfsHas BeensTodayStreetsHappeningsFunctionResponseConcerts Author:Pete Townshend
“Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.” WellsWholeFormCultureBlackCommunityWhiteMovementTypeHappeningsDancingHip HopRapHipsHopsHispanicFreestyleBreakdancing Author:Afrika Bambaataa
“Is everybody that depressed? It's a depressing feeling to me. You know: "I lost my baby." I don't care if you lost your baby, I care if you're feeling OK. Don't tell me your problem - tell me what good's been happening to you.” IfsKnowsFeelingsProblemCareLostBabyHappeningsDon't CareI Don't CareDepressingI CareMy Baby Author:Alice Cooper
“We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.” ThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsEnergyCreativePiecesStageParticularConversationMusicianHappeningsStructureVisibleDefinite Author:Lisa Gerrard
“It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don't show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists.” WorldDifferentRealShowsTurnsSituationAirEffectsExampleHappeningsWarmSurfaceProofObservationFasterAtmosphereGlobal WarmingRegionsHypothesisMeasurementTrickyTheoristsCo2 Author:Nigel Calder
“Those ministers of God who go about condemning me rather than preaching the Gospel they are sent to preach, are doing themselves a great harm. The more they condemn me, the lesser their anointing become. Go round the country today and see what is happening. Those men of God who used to perform great signs and wonder have lost their anointing because of their blasphemies.” MenCountryTodayUsedLostWonderHappeningsRoundsHarmMinistersPreachingBlasphemyCondemningAnointingMan Of GodPreaching The GospelSigns And Wonders Author:T. B. Joshua
“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.” YearsLooksDoeHas BeensSeemsWould BeGivenRecordsSeaSummerLowsHappeningsAverageFoolishRecoveryObservationIceRegionsTemporaryTrendsDefiniteProjectionProgressionDip Author:David Robert Whitehouse
“As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.” IfsMenLongDoeMatterHappeningsDevil Author:Rodney Howard-Browne
“Well, God doesn't intervene in many of the situations we would like Him to because He would have to intervene in everything that we say and do that is wrong right the way through to some of the most terrible things happening in nations. What He does is He gives us signs that He is with us and that we can draw help from Him. Jesus changed water into wine. That had no function really. They had already run out of wine in the party so he was only aiding and abetting more drinking.” WayGivingWellsDoeHelpingRunningJesusNationsWaterPartySituationChangedTerribleDrawsHappeningsFunctionWineDrinkingThings HappenTerrible Things Author:Gerald Coates
“In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.” WellsCultureSpiritualityChurchDarknessSeriousHappeningsCatholicBuddhistTemplesOrthodoxEmergingOrthodox Church Author:Dan Kimball
“Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.” WellsEndsCultureSpiritualityChurchSpacePayAttentionResponsibilityDarknessDesignSeriousBecomingHappeningsCatholicCommunicateBuddhistPay AttentionTemplesOrthodoxAestheticsEmergingRespectfulBecoming MoreSensoryOrthodox Church Author:Dan Kimball
“It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.” KnowsFeelsFirstsStatesFeelingsHandsLeftSoundVoiceCreativeRecordsCarBuildingHappeningsFirst TimeDown AndGuitarThings HappenPianoChords Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman
“Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to be aware of the German music scene, let alone following it actively. But changes which were happening with S.o.S. (namely the development of individual ideas and the effort to distinguish from the Anglo- American rock patterns) also helped me recognize other musicians within my immediate vicinity.” IdeasIndividualMy OwnEffortToo MuchRocksDevelopmentSceneMusicianHappeningsPatternsFollowingVicinity Author:Michael Rother
“I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.” PeopleThinkingLevelsAudienceLateHappeningsTwentiesRememberedSeventiesConfinedLate Twenties Author:Mike Batt
“If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.” IfsWritingCharacterHappensFunStuffSituationEasierHappeningsGoldDepressing Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.” HumansHappensBitsTermConsciousnessTalkingTechnologyKnowingHonestHappeningsActiveBeing HonestFar AwayHuman Consciousness Author:Johnny Depp
“There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.” LooksCountryProblemCommunityWealthRaceExampleSeriousHappeningsAfrican AmericanZeroAlmost Zero Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.” WorldWantKidsDifferencesHappeningsCuriousSensitiveEngagedMaking A Difference Author:Chelsea Clinton
“Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.” LittlesCountryCharacterProblemPoliticalFightingNationsLeaderWillingCitizensPromiseHappeningsAngryWoundsOur CountryInsultRhetoricTestedHealedBombasticPolitical Rhetoric Author:Carly Fiorina
“We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in the region. And we're open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it's a common threat.” TryingBelieveWellsStatesUnitedCommonSituationUnited StatesHappeningsThreatRussiaRegionsSyriaDiscussing Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksRealFacesHappeningsVoteWake UpComplicatedRegionsReal WorldHumiliationMenaceMarginalization Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.” PeopleSeemsCareSocialResponsibilityHappeningsTake CareVulnerableDecentSensibleSocial Responsibility Author:Noam Chomsky
“The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.” KnowsWayHas BeensBodyReligiousWonderKnow HowAmountHappeningsRemarkablePhenomenal Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.” ThinkingShowsFilmCertainImaginationDealsMassHappeningsCollectivesCapture Author:Laurie Foos
“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsFallGayHappeningsFirst TimeFalling In LoveTransgender Author:Cate Blanchett
“Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.” NeedsFeelingsSeemsMomSurvivalHappeningsMatureBreakdownSurvival Mode Author:Natalie Maines
“What is it that we need to do to explain to the public exactly is what is happening? We are destroying our precious water resources at this alarming rate, and again, why? When we have so many viable alternatives? "Oh,alternative power is too expensive, what about the jobs" - this is dinosaur thinking.” ThinkingNeedsJobsWaterHappeningsResourcesRateAlternativesExpensiveDestroyingDinosaursWater ResourcesExactly Is Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back.” CountryNationsCitizensHappeningsAngryOur Country Author:Carly Fiorina
“I don't know how anybody can say that who looks at what's happening to our young people and what's happening to our country, all because of guns. The NRA is putting themselves in a position where people will no longer trust them. They've been trusted in the past, but now their credibility is on the line.” PeopleKnowsLooksCountryPastYoungLinesKnow HowPositionHappeningsGunOur CountryTrustedCredibilityNra Author:Joycelyn Elders
“If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.” IfsSongStuffSoundHappenings Author:Tamaryn
“I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtCertainCreativityHappeningsCubaArt World Author:Rachael Price
“I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.” PeopleWayTryingSpiritBuildingHappeningsAppealsFlagsGearsElectronic Music Author:Squarepusher
“You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.” WayFeelsChildrenPlayShowsKidsGamesComputerHappeningsOur ChildrenInsightYour ChildrenPrompts Author:Seymour Papert
“Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.” IfsWorldSaidRealReasonMightHappensKidsSchoolMovingSoundTeachPersonalityHappeningsGapsReal WorldEducatorAggravating Author:Seymour Papert
“Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.” KnowsStillsTodayHappenedShareHappeningsMy FriendsSilentSexually Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country.” PeopleDifferentCountryMillionsMilitaryPerspectiveRepublicanSixHappeningsDemocratSevenOur CountryDifferent PerspectiveForeign CountriesLiving Abroad Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I would say there is a conversation happening between your body and mind all the time. Even when you're sleeping, your body is communicating the information to your mind. And so to me it feels like, why not harness that? If it's happening all the time, why not control the content of the conversation?” IfsFeelsMindBodySleepInformationConversationHappeningsCommunicateYour BodyWhy NotMind And BodyHarness Author:Amy Cuddy
“I think that when you look at history and when you look at these facts that shape nations and shape countries and give us present examples of how we're supposed to live, we find more and more often that we're not paying attention to what's actually happening.” ThinkingGivingLooksCountryFactsNationsAttentionExampleShapesHappeningsPay Attention Author:Immortal Technique
“I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.” ThinkingHardShowsProblemCrimeYouthHappeningsMental HealthCausalityHealth Problems Author:Edward Zigler
“We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.” WorldGivingTogetherAbilityPiecesHappenedHappeningsLogicalRemembranceContinuity Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“We need all three senses of time - a sense of the future, a sense of the present, and a sense of the past - at all times to understand or experience what's happening right now. It's constantly unfolding that way.” WayNeedsPastThreeRight NowHappeningsSensesAll TimeUnfolding Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.” HumansHuman BeingsMiddleExpressionRight NowHappeningsObviousVulnerabilityFragileConnecting Author:Jason Mraz
“As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.” FeelsPersonsStoriesSawsHappeningsObligationSixtySeventies Author:Grace Paley
“I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.” TryingDifferentFactsArtistSimpleLevelsFansHappeningsHip HopHipsHopsDifferent ThingsSincereMainstreamTrying Different ThingsDissing Author:Talib Kweli
“We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.” ThinkingCountryResultsTakenHappeningsCurrentsOur CountryAdministrationWrong ThingsWrong Direction Author:Edgar Mitchell
“This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.” RoomsMaterialsHappeningsPreparedHandleComedian Author:John Hodgman
“Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.” PeopleStuffTelevisionRight NowHappeningsCables Author:Kool Keith
“I think when you write every song on your album - it's like having eleven or twelve children. It's hard to say I like this one song more or I like that one more. I love every song on the album. What's happening is that I'm hoping that everyone will be very satisfied. I think the single "Good Girl" will be adored by the people in the urban world and I think the "Best of Me" will be loved by people in the pop world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingChildrenHardSongGirlHappeningsAlbumsPopsSatisfiedTwelveUrbanElevenGood GirlBest Of Me Author:Chrisette Michele