Occurred Quotes

565 Occurred quotes by 476 unique authors

Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare… — Lisa Kleypas
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way… — Elizabeth Kostova
Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding… — Yukio Mishima
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by… — George Orwell
...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,… — David Foster Wallace
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like… — Donald Miller
Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to… — Rick Riordan
Then something occurred to me. "Get closer," I told Blackjack. He whinnied in protest. "Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to… — Rick Riordan
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't… — Julian Barnes
It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a… — Maggie Stiefvater
And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. — Lisa Kleypas
I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working… — Kathryn Stockett
My lord," catherine asked,her eyes wide, "do you think that has anything to do with the Ramsay curse?" "Actually, that hadn't occurred to me yet,"… — Lisa Kleypas
It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts… — Banana Yoshimoto
When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother.… — Wendy Mass
It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would… — Justin Cronin
It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. — Miranda July
I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or… — Margaret Laurence
has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love? — Siobhan Dowd
It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself. — Dan Chaon
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in… — Martin Scorsese

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