Occurrence Quotes

108 quotes by 96 authors

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. — Ernst Mayr
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith
Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous… — Herbert Spencer
The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence. — Niklas Luhmann
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,… — Matthew Yglesias
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. — Ambrose Bierce
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence. — Plutarch
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation. — Samuel Johnson
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. — Samuel Richardson
When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any… — Alexei Navalny
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was… — Daniel Ellsberg
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which… — Ronald Fisher
If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions,… — Immanuel Kant
At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of… — Leymah Gbowee
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. — H. L. Mencken
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo da Vinci
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. — Harold Rosenberg
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. — Katherine Dunn
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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