Occur Quotes

744 Occur quotes by 609 unique authors

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions. — Vladimir Nabokov
Adventures do occur, but not punctually. — E. M. Forster
What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But… — Pat Conroy
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. — Jonah Lehrer
It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and… — Kate Morton
I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was… — Elizabeth Gilbert
In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely… — Willa Cather
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are… — Cormac McCarthy
Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid… — Paulo Coelho
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go,… — Haruki Murakami
Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good. — Daniel Handler
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man… — James Lee Burke
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all… — Peter David
Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and… — Jeannette Walls
Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not… — Richard Preston
There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of… — John Banville
Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same… — David Archuleta
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread… — Jared Diamond
I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid… — Michael Crichton
Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes… — Unknown Author
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur. — Isabel Allende
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they… — Jack McDevitt

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