Occurs Quotes

572 Occurs quotes by 487 unique authors

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me… — Donald Miller
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute.… — Milan Kundera
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there… — Vladimir Nabokov
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. — Dan Simmons
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and… — Ray Bradbury
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of… — Thomas Hardy
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to… — John Steinbeck
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by… — Stephen Crane
...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no… — George Saunders
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery. — Annie Proulx
For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made… — Haruki Murakami
Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. — Stephen Dunn
You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money… — Jack Kerouac
It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the… — E. O. Wilson
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or… — Jerzy Kosinski
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe… — Jorge Luis Borges
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to… — Albert Camus
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith. — Jostein Gaarder
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that… — Milton Friedman
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and… — Emma Bull
I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during… — E. O. Wilson
When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow… — Seraphim Rose
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been. — Jerry Garcia

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