Occurred Quotes
565 Occurred quotes by 476 unique authors
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a…
— Lucian
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We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that…
— Sarah Silverman
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum…
— Thomas Huxley
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
— Lee Simonson
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary…
— W H Murray
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the…
— Shirley Hazzard
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Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?
— William Shatner
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Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on…
— Sigourney Weaver
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And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.
— Winston Churchill
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Geologists and paleo-climatologists know that in the past the Earth's temperature has been substantially warmer than it is today, and that this warming has occurred…
— Greg Benson
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The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the sunrise of creation to all…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we…
— Robert Grudin
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with…
— Arthur Koestler
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What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had…
— Archibald MacLeish
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In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences.…
— Unknown Author
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The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon…
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
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There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a…
— Steven M. Greer
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Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?
— Unknown Author
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In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept…
— Albert Einstein
Who Wrote These Occurred Quotes
476 authors contributed a total of 565 Occurred Quotes, led by these top contributors: