Occurrences Quotes

60 Occurrences quotes by 54 unique authors

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not… — Thucydides
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue… — Paul von Hindenburg
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not… — Robert Vaughn
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences… — Benjamin Franklin
In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the… — Stefan Zweig
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it… — Hermann Hesse
The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences. — Confucius
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will… — Louis D. Brandeis
It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or… — Hal Elrod
Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them… — Frederick Lenz
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of… — H P Lovecraft
The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more. — Frederick Lenz
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of… — Albert Einstein
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. — Karl Marx
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart. — Ellen G. White
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass… — George Washington
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In… — Curtis Sittenfeld
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences. — Charles Spurgeon
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in… — Stephen King

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