Occurrences Quotes
60 Occurrences quotes by 54 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
— Karl Marx
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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
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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
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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
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But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
— Charles Spurgeon
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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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Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail,…
— Neil Gaiman
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He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a…
— Anne Frank
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My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the…
— Cynthia Kadohata
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Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that…
— Juliet Marillier
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Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right…
— Ted Dekker
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I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark…
— Anne Bronte
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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
— Mark Twain
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How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you…
— Cecelia Ahern
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