“I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.” HappensGuyFightingSexLevelsTypeMembersOfficeSmartOppositesPassionateArguingHigh LevelBenedick Author:Mindy Kaling
“I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.” IfsHappensMembersCongressCapitol Author:Barack Obama
“The service members don't ask much of us. They ask to be well trained. They ask to be well equipped and they ask to be well led. And if something should happen to them, they ask that we take care of their families.” IfsShouldWellsHappensCareAsksMembersTake Care Author:Brian Whitman
“I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what's the image we're photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.” ThinkingTryingLooksStoriesHappensNextAudienceMembersThings Happen Author:Christopher Nolan
“Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.” IfsMaySometimesHappensFriendshipAliveLoversMembersRootsIndependentThings HappenCoalComes And GoesFamily Members Author:Joan Frank
“But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.” ShowsHappensAudienceCoupleMembersClothesGuitarManagersWoodstockToothbrushes Author:John Sebastian
“The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.” ProblemHappensTechnologyTeamMembersInabilityTeam MemberBusiness Change Book:Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
“Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.” PeopleKnowsYearsLongHappensFacesLoversMembersLong TimeClaimsTwentiesDistanceStrangerFamiliarOld FriendsFamily MembersFamiliar Faces Book:Some Kind of Fairy Tale Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale
“Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?” IfsWayHappensSchoolUniverseEvolutionMembersVoteScaryFundProvenTaxpayersJuryTextbooks Author:Kent Hovind
“For me, each of SNSD members is like my own body. If one gets hurts or hears bad things from someone else, it hurts me and pains me even more. And you know, it's impossible for only good things to happen to someone, so there will always be difficult and hurtful times; but during these times, I'm thankful that we're each other's supports and each other's strength. I hope in the future, we'll continue to lean on each other and be strong for each other. Also, when we need encouragement, we'll continue to look for each other too.” IfsKnowsNeedsLooksBodyHappensPainStrongDifficultHurtMy OwnSupportImpossibleMembersEncouragementGood ThingsBad ThingsIt HurtsHurt MeHurtfulSnsdNeed Encouragement Author:Sunny
“We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.” Has BeensHappensCultureLiteratureParticularMembersGender Author:Andrew Cohen
“Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.” ThinkingWantShouldMindMadeBigsHappensYoungPoliticalEasyDangerMembersCarefulLoyaltyIntenseIdeologyOrthodoxLoyalPreacherAvoidedShoutingCabbagePolitical Ideology Author:Charlie Munger
“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.” PeopleThinkingDifferentReasonHappensInterestingGroupsMembersBackgroundsCaliforniaExploringCultDifferent Backgrounds Author:Brit Marling
“Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.” DoneHappensThreeGroupsSucceedMembersSickCommitteesAbsent Author:Abraham Lincoln
“I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle of a year and a half back and said, "We want to de-fund Planned Parenthood," he said, "Not going to happen." Those apparently were more or less his exact words.” WantYearsSaidHappensEyeHalfMembersOfficeCourtCongressBudgetsFundParenthoodPlanned ParenthoodDebacles Author:Anna Quindlen
“Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.” RealMatterHappensActionCertainRaceClassGroupsMembersNo Matter WhatChosenMinoritiesOur SocietyLaddersAffirmative ActionAffirmativeDisadvantaged Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities.” KnowsWantNeedsChildrenRealStoriesHappensCommunityCollegePlanetsMembersDegreesScientistOur ChildrenUniversityExpertsFancyHallsVisitingOur CommunityCollege DegreeReal Education Author:Annie Leonard
“We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.” HappensTodayPastMembersSenatorsMayorsColombiaAmnestyGuerrillas Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayHappensIgnoranceColorMembersDemocraticGenderOur SocietyOrientationFacetsThis SocietyDemocratic Society Author:Dolores Huerta
“Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human weaknesses. And so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of Congress in order to pass his agenda. This time it's the other way around. Donald Trump does not have much of an agenda. Congress burns with this intense Republican agenda and so does Congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.” PeopleWayWantHumansDoeBigsHappensOrderPresidentTrumpRepublicanMembersWeaknessCongressIntenseAgendasPresidencyIndulgeSignatures Author:David Frum
“The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely vulnerable to even small upsets in their income or in the prices they face of basic necessities, and when something like this happens, they can be thrown off kilter in terms of a disease of a family member or a change in food prices; anything like that can throw them into destitution.” HappensFacesHumanityTermHalfPovertyMembersDiseaseBottomIncomeVulnerableUpsetThrownSevereDeprivedFamily Members Author:Thomas Pogge
“Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.” MightHappensJobsActorsMembersHollywoodUnionsConservativeDareInjuredLaid Off Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.” ShouldWarHappensAmericaNationsDecisionUnitedSecurityMembersUnderstoodRelationProfoundInternationalDecadesPermanentStabilityFoundersConsentUnited NationsCouncilConsensusInternational RelationsCharterVetoSecurity Council Author:Vladimir Putin