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Definition of Happen

Happen

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

To take place; to occur.

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Happen Quotations

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Eminem

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
Bob Marley

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Jimi Hendrix

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Steven Wright

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
Steven Wright

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Happen Translations

happen in Afrikaans is word, raak, gebeur, geskie, plaatsvind
happen in Danish is ske, blive
happen in Dutch is toegaan, voortgang hebben, gebeuren
happen in Finnish is tapahtua
happen in French is se passer, devenir, se faire, avenez, advenir
happen in German is geschehen, geschehen, ereignen
happen in Italian is avvenire, succedere, passare, accadere
happen in Latin is occuro, evenio
happen in Norwegian is hende, skje
happen in Spanish is ocurrir, acaecer

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