“But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.” SaidPoliticalCultureHappeningsCampaignsFinanceReformCampaign FinancePolitical CultureCampaign Finance Reform Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.” SaidDifferentUseRaceHappeningsDriversVehicleCabinets Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
“Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.” PeopleIfsGivingSaidTwoShowsEvilHappeningsAbuseMajorityPrisonSilentSoldierDeedsNakedGermanyPrisonerDozenAcceptableApprovalNaziPyramidsNazi GermanyTacitAbu GhraibSilent Majority Author:Philip Zimbardo
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.” WayYearsSaidRealAmericaUsedCompanyHappeningsMetaphorReal LifeUsed To Be Author:Immortal Technique
“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.” KnowsSaidSometimesKnow HowTakenExampleInternetHappeningsOkayYeahStrategySurpriseDeeperListsPrioritiesFasterPhenomenonSpellsFifth Author:Bill Gates
“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.” KnowsSaidHappensTodayAmericaUsedTypeHappeningsEuropeStoresUsed To BeCaliforniaOur FutureGlimpseCivilisationHeed Author:Alistair Cooke
“I’ve often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being “half-pregnant.” You either are or you aren’t. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science – or you don’t. Folks this isn’t a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.” SaidHappensHalfAcceptingIssuesHappeningsPicksClimateClimate ChangeFolksLuxuryRejectsPregnantCafeteria Author:John F. Kerry
“There was one time where I failed to perform sexually. My girlfriend said to me "oh don't worry, it happens to a lot of guys". Ok, there are two things wrong with that. First of all who are these other guys?, and second of all if it's happening to more than one of us, don't you think it could be YOUR fault?” IfsThinkingFirstsSaidTwoHumorHappensFunnyGuyWorryHappeningsFaultsGirlfriendTwo ThingsOne TimeOther GuysSexuallyMy Girlfriend Author:Jimmy Carr
“E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.” PeopleWaySaidInternetHappeningsCommerceGlimpseHypeDeploymentE CommerceBroadband Author:Andy Grove
“I found myself with a wife and kids, and some of my friends weren't around as much. They weren't calling as much, and I didn't quite know what it was. Someone said, "Yeah, I recently lost one of my closest friends. He got his finger stuck in a wedding ring." And I thought, "Oh, that's what's happening! We're all going off and making our own families."” KnowsSaidKidsFoundLostWifeCallingHappeningsMy FriendsYeahFingersRingsStuckClosestClosest FriendsLost OnesWedding Ring Author:Scott Foley
“Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.” FirstsSaidTwoHoursLosesCuttingMinutesHappeningsIncrediblesDamnContractsDistributors Author:David Twohy
“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
“Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish.” MadeSaidWould BeBrainPositionFootballHappeningsYardsDefendersSigningLiverpoolKenny Author:Ronnie Moran
“When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidSoulBodyBeautifulEffectsPlanetsHappeningsYour BodyThings HappenMidstHumankindBeautiful Things Author:T.C. Boyle
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“When ISIS last year called for the destruction of the Yazidi people, President Obama said that would constitute genocide and he ordered U.S. forces to keep it from happening. Human rights advocates say Christians now face a similar threat Nina Shea directs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.” PeopleYearsHumansSaidChristianLastsFacesForcePresidentReligiousRightsHappeningsDestructionThreatHuman RightsGenocidePresident ObamaLast YearIsisInstituteReligious FreedomNina Author:Tom Gjelten
“I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can't be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it's bad.” SaidStatesTalkingTrumpHappeningsShockPopeThey SaidUnimportantTalking About Me Author:Donald Trump
“I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.” IfsTryingMadeSaidBookHappensPastReadingWaitingSawsPaperHappeningsNot SureCommentRaysCartoonDiplomaticTrayvon MartinTrayvon Author:Adepero Oduye
“I'm specifically talking about Bill Nelson which merely said to [Barak] Obama stop what you're doing because it's against the law. He's out there saying that today we're gonna start separating families from their children and start sending people home, and it's not happening.” PeopleChildrenSaidHomeTodayLawTalkingHappeningsBillsNelsonSeparatingBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I do believe that we are living in the last days. I know this has been said before but there are events happening in our world right now that, to me, are what we call signs of the times.” KnowsWorldBelieveHas BeensSaidLastsEventsRight NowHappeningsOur WorldLast Day Author:Greg Laurie
“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.” ThinkingShouldYearsSaidSeemsWould BeChristianChristWeekShareEventsProduceMonthsHappeningsYears AgoThings HappenFulfilledProphecyUrgencyBible Prophecy Author:Greg Laurie
“I do not remember when I said this [oil production would collapse ], maybe in the heat of the moment, but I do not think I even said it, but I may just not remember it. I was saying that at a certain level of oil prices new deposits will not be explored. That is what is actually happening. However, surprisingly, our oil and gas workers [mainly oilmen] continue to invest.” ThinkingMaySaidMomentsRememberCertainLevelsHappeningsWorkersProductionsOilHeatGasCollapseRemember WhenDepositsOil And GasOil PriceOil ProductionHeat Of The Moment Author:Vladimir Putin
“In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.” MayLongSaidIssuesMediaRepublicanLong TimeHappeningsElectionClimateClimate ChangeDebateRationalPrimariesCandidatesExceptionModeratesClimate Change Deniers Author:Noam Chomsky
“Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].” KnowsNeedsTryingSaidSeemsInfluenceSecurityHappeningsBreathsAgencyDeep BreathTake A Deep Breath Author:Jill Stein
“People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.” PeopleHeartHas BeensSaidStatesWantedUsedChoicesRealizingMy HeartHappeningsDoctorsThirdsAccessBrokeAbortionCould Have BeenClinicMaking ChoicesProfundityBroke My HeartFundraiserReceptionistsThank You For Coming Author:Lizz Winstead
“I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a lot of the web companies, is as their demand to increase the payload they deliver in ads increases, they end up degrading and corrupting their own services. And you can see it with Google Maps, you can see it with Google Directions, where somehow Uber is, you know, always one of the options. And it's becoming exactly what they said was what they never wanted, which is a pay-for service where the highest bidder gets the best results.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSaidEndsWantedResultsPayCompanyBecomingDemandHighestHappeningsIncreaseStartingMapsAdsGoogleThey SaidDegradingUberGoogle Maps Author:Tim Wu
“We all have a dark side but we keep it in its place because it's destructive. And Donald Trump has said, no, no, bring it out because that's the energy we need in order to reverse all these horrible things that have been happening in America.” NeedsHas BeensSaidAmericaOrderEnergySidesDarkTrumpHappeningsHorribleDestructiveReverseDark SideHorrible Things Author:George Packer
“I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.” KnowsWayBelieveSaidHardSchoolStudentsArmsBearsHappeningsJournalismDo You KnowAmendmentsFourthRight To Bear ArmsColumbiaHard To BelieveLecturingFourth Amendment Author:Nat Hentoff
“I don't think [Donald] Trump was playing rope-a-dope. He probably said, "Look, I've done these. How many debates did we do in the primaries? I know what's happening."” ThinkingKnowsLooksSaidDoneTrumpHappeningsDebatePrimariesRopeDope Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.” WayBelieveDoeSaidRealEventsTasteHappeningsSeriesScreenwriters Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I could see America playing a slightly smaller role in the Middle East but I would not see us abandoning the region and just say "Oh," like I said, "China, Russia, it's yours now. Global focus is just on our hemisphere." I don't see that happening.” SaidAmericaRolesFocusMiddleHappeningsChinaEastRussiaRegionsMiddle EastHemisphere Author:Thomas Friedman
“I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!” ThinkingFeelsShouldPersonsHas BeensSaidWould BeGuyDadHappeningsShould HaveMy DadWho I AmEaseMakeupShould Have BeenMusic And LifeFamily Oriented Author:David Bowie
“Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.” MeanSaidPlayWould BeBitsNiceListeningTerribleHappeningsBeing NiceShut UpNanniesGrannyExcursions Author:Terry Pratchett
“But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—” PeopleKnowsShouldLooksSaidRealDreamRememberMovingSpeakForgetFireHappenedGoes OnDrawsHappeningsDinnerFinishedAwakeLook At Me Author:Peter S. Beagle
“None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.” ThinkingSaidHappeningsShadowMiserable Author:Neil Gaiman
“I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.” SaidBodyDiesFallVoiceAirTreeFeetHappeningsPullingLimbsAssuredTree Limbs Book:Kartography Source: Kartography
“You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.” SaidFactsMightHappeningsIslandsHostile Author:Dave Barry