Occur Quotes
744 Occur quotes by 609 unique authors
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It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye.…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities…
— China Mieville
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At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
— Michael Crichton
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Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
— Daniel Handler
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Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.
— Daniel Handler
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Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will…
— Arthur Golden
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However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our…
— Paulo Coelho
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He gives me a look that says, “Dude, if I knew that do you think I’d have enlisted your puny help?†I snicker. “Something funny…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way,…
— Paulo Coelho
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But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .
— Dan Ariely
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This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance…
— Louise Erdrich
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The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the…
— Caitlin Moran
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Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for…
— Jim Butcher
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I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.
— Gavin Extence
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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to…
— Anatol Rapoport
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