"Happen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... adventures every minute anywhere," said Wilbur, "but even so, you're not standing on one spot like a sailor in a crow's nest, waiting for something to happen; you're in the saddle, riding from point to point all day long, sometimes when there is a trail and sometimes when there isn't, out in the real woods, not in poky, stuffy city streets. You know, Fred, I can't stand the city; I always feel as ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... observed, that this Description of Love in Sappho is an exact Copy of Nature, and that all the Circumstances which follow one another in such an Hurry of Sentiments, notwithstanding they appear repugnant to each other, are really such as happen in the ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... said Leather-Stocking, the hounds be out, and are hunting a deer, No man can deceive me in such a matter. I wouldnt have had the thing happen for a beavers skin. Not that I care for the law; but the venison is lean now, and the dumb things run the flesh off their own bones for no good. Now ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... constantly (and to ask) whether I also am one of them, what imagination I have about myself, how I conduct myself, whether I conduct myself as a prudent man, whether I conduct myself as a temperate man, whether I ever say this, that I have been taught to be prepared for everything that may happen. Have I the consciousness, which a man who knows nothing ought to have, that I know nothing? Do I go to my teacher as men go to oracles, prepared to obey? or do I like a snivelling boy go to my school to learn history and understand the books which I did not understand before, and, if ...
— A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus With the Encheiridion • Epictetus
... from one to the other. "I don't suppose either of you gentlemen happen to have been down and looked over the ground where the hold-up was? The tracks were right cut up before ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
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