Quotes about Occurred

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. Votes: 1

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa. Votes: 1

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. Votes: 1

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Votes: 1

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple. Votes: 1

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon. Votes: 1

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. Votes: 1

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Votes: 1

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Votes: 1

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. Votes: 1

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. Votes: 1

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents. Votes: 1

This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years. Votes: 1

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred. Votes: 1

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information. Votes: 1

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. Votes: 1

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. Votes: 1

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. Votes: 1

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. Votes: 1

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.' Votes: 1

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded. Votes: 1

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before. Votes: 1

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy. Votes: 1

As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released. Votes: 1

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. Votes: 1

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. Votes: 1

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me to say no. Votes: 0

I am the place in which something has occurred. Votes: 0

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me to be an actor. Votes: 0

It never really occurred to me to believe in God. Votes: 0

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady. Votes: 0

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God? Votes: 0

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it, Votes: 0

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star. Votes: 0

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. Votes: 0

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Votes: 0

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. Votes: 0

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes? Votes: 0

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation. Votes: 0

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence? Votes: 0

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it. Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? Votes: 0

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. Votes: 0

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. Votes: 0

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. Votes: 0

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. Votes: 0

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred. Votes: 0

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. Votes: 0

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. Votes: 0

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. Votes: 0

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. Votes: 0

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. Votes: 0

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time. Votes: 0

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate Votes: 0

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. Votes: 0

No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. Votes: 0

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love? Votes: 0

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me. Votes: 0

The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership. Votes: 0

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden. Votes: 0

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more. Votes: 0

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. Votes: 0

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. Votes: 0

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred. Votes: 0

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. Votes: 0

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods. Votes: 0

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies. Votes: 0

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. Votes: 0

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process. Votes: 0

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred. Votes: 0

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio. Votes: 0

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else. Votes: 0

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!! Votes: 0

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had. Votes: 0

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them. Votes: 0

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet. Votes: 0

Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred. Votes: 0

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. Votes: 0

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. Votes: 0

I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred. Votes: 0

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. Votes: 0

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. Votes: 0

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. Votes: 0

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma. Votes: 0

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. Votes: 0

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. Votes: 0

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event Votes: 0

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. Votes: 0

I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election. Votes: 0

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. Votes: 0

Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity. Votes: 0

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. Votes: 0

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred. Votes: 0

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. Votes: 0

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things. Votes: 0

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things." Votes: 0

It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. Votes: 0

I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis. Votes: 0

Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred. Votes: 0

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day. Votes: 0

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak. Votes: 0

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. Votes: 0

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time. Votes: 0

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background. Votes: 0

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. Votes: 0

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. Votes: 0

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second. Votes: 0

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God. Votes: 0

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny. Votes: 0

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting. Votes: 0

It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them. Votes: 0

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me. Votes: 0

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting. Votes: 0

I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me. Votes: 0

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal. Votes: 0

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. Votes: 0

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal Votes: 0

I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred. Votes: 0

Being psychic does not necessarily mean seeing an event that has not yet occurred. It is rather seeing the inner nature of something. Votes: 0

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me Votes: 0

Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood. Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life? Votes: 0

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do. Votes: 0

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. Votes: 0

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. Votes: 0

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. Votes: 0

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. Votes: 0

I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years. Votes: 0

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent. Votes: 0

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. Votes: 0

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. Votes: 0

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me. Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head? Votes: 0

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten. Votes: 0

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself. Votes: 0

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. Votes: 0

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. Votes: 0

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever. Votes: 0

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort. Votes: 0

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this. Votes: 0

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences. Votes: 0

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul? Votes: 0

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God? Votes: 0

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own. Votes: 0

It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world. Votes: 0

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic. Votes: 0

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years. Votes: 0

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do. Votes: 0

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained. Votes: 0

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time. Votes: 0

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented. Votes: 0

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs. Votes: 0

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine. Votes: 0

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived. Votes: 0

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. Votes: 0

Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk. Votes: 0

These 13,000 release occurred on Hillary Clinton's watch. She had the power and the duty to stop it cold, and she decided she would not do it. Votes: 0

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. Votes: 0

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. Votes: 0

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. Votes: 0

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still. Votes: 0

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. Votes: 0

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist. Votes: 0

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out. Votes: 0

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me. Votes: 0

I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did. Votes: 0

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. Votes: 0

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity. Votes: 0

Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be. Votes: 0

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. Votes: 0

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. Votes: 0

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. Votes: 0

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to. Votes: 0

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers. Votes: 0

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon. Votes: 0

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero. Votes: 0

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't. Votes: 0

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural Votes: 0

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art. Votes: 0

Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of. Votes: 0

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes. Votes: 0

The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the sunrise of creation to all ages of eternity Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? Votes: 0

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s. Votes: 0

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can. Votes: 0

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet. Votes: 0

I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making. Votes: 0

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. Votes: 0

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough Votes: 0

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America. Votes: 0

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. Votes: 0

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. Votes: 0

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) Votes: 0

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?' Votes: 0

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness. Votes: 0

But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is"--not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America ... Votes: 0

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred. Votes: 0

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens. Votes: 0

I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented. Votes: 0

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'" Votes: 0

And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed. Votes: 0

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented. Votes: 0

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell. Votes: 0

dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred. Votes: 0

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping". Votes: 0

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. Votes: 0

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny. Votes: 0

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. Votes: 0

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred. Votes: 0

To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred? Votes: 0

Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred. Votes: 0

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another. Votes: 0

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them. Votes: 0

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road. Votes: 0

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too. Votes: 0

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. Votes: 0

There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred. Votes: 0

He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy. Votes: 0

Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. Votes: 0

With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again Votes: 0

It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop. Votes: 0

It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected. Votes: 0

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today. Votes: 0

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred. Votes: 0

I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes. Votes: 0

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives. Votes: 0

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. Votes: 0

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast. Votes: 0

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree. Votes: 0

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time. Votes: 0

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming "” what should I do? "” with an answer taking shape: nothing. Votes: 0

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred. Votes: 0

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Votes: 0

The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love. Votes: 0

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge. Votes: 0

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. Votes: 0

If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly. Votes: 0

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. Votes: 0

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. Votes: 0

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it. Votes: 0

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it. Votes: 0

In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow. Votes: 0

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl! Votes: 0

I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred. Votes: 0

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred. Votes: 0

In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive. Votes: 0

I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred. Votes: 0

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana. Votes: 0

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home. Votes: 0

Six books"¦ my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books "“ that I put myself inside them for safe keeping. Votes: 0

Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions. Votes: 0

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred. Votes: 0

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. Votes: 0

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now. Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . . Votes: 0

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw. Votes: 0

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred. Votes: 0

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change. Votes: 0

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities. Votes: 0

Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities. Votes: 0

This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect. Votes: 0

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things. Votes: 0

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface. Votes: 0

It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny. Votes: 0

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film. Votes: 0

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. Votes: 0

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well. Votes: 0

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain. Votes: 0

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain. Votes: 0

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age. Votes: 0

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself. Votes: 0

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. Votes: 0

It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story. Votes: 0

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor? Votes: 0

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing? Votes: 0

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. Votes: 0

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet. Votes: 0

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk. Votes: 0

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought. Votes: 0

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis. Votes: 0

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks. Votes: 0

It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred. Votes: 0

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified. Votes: 0

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified. Votes: 0

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness. Votes: 0

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. Votes: 0

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end. Votes: 0

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition. Votes: 0

It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay. Votes: 0

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count. Votes: 0

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam Votes: 0

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. Votes: 0

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week. Votes: 0

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. Votes: 0

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women. Votes: 0

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . . Votes: 0