Occurs Quotes

572 Occurs quotes by 487 unique authors

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed… — David Mitchell
Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the… — Carl Sagan
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole… — Ram Dass
She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention." "And I suppose it… — Kristin Cashore
It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our… — John Steinbeck
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? — Robert Frost
Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. — Anthony Horowitz
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have… — John Irving
The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently… — Carl Jung
It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting. — Lauren Oliver
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of… — Galt Niederhoffer
It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only… — Deb Caletti
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social… — Dorothy L. Sayers
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a… — Amy Carmichael
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the… — Meghan O'Rourke
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One… — Karen Russell
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon… — Jane Austen
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs… — Anthony de Mello
The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when… — Tom Robbins
I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in… — Luke Davies
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a… — R C Sproul
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit… — Novalis
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own… — Lisa Unger
I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never… — Groucho Marx

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