Occur Quotes

#1. A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Honore De Balzac

#2. But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Rene Descartes

#3. In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

Marianne Williamson

#4. Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

Dennis Garlick

#5. Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

Donald Rumsfeld

#6. Transparency isn't a replacement for integrity and honesty; it's an infrastructural tool that allows for those attributes to occur - but only if the public is willing act upon the information that they receive as a result of transparency in a conscious, deliberate way.

Clay A. Johnson

#7. Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

Esther Hicks

#8. If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.

Mark Rippetoe

#9. Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days ... or a few months after childbirth.

Richard J. Codey

#10. Color, to continue had to occur in space.

Donald Judd

#11. When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands over not only his money and jewelry but also his shirt and pants, because it doesn't occur to him that a robber might draw the line somewhere.

Rex Stout

#12. It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

Jean Stafford

#13. It did not occur to Adya that like being competitive during exam times, while being competitive in matters of life also the boys would actually tend to ditch their female counterparts in little little matters and get things their way.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#14. In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity ... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.

George Greer

#15. Trail conflicts can and do occur among different user groups, among different users within the same user group, and as a result of factors not related to users' trail activities at all. In fact, no actual contact among trail users need occur for conflict to be felt.

Roger Moore

#16. In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Oscar Wilde

#17. It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

Martha Manning

#18. I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

David Stern

#19. Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Joseph Heller

#20. I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

Kate Mulgrew

#21. The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America.

Richard Preston

#22. Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

David Ogden Stiers

#23. The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

Francis Crick

#24. There was this professional hockey player that I liked. I imagined him watching at the parade and falling in love with me. It didn't occur to me that he probably wasn't interested in twelve-year-olds.

Heather O'Neill

#25. Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Jill Scott

#26. Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur..

Guy Finley

#27. Competency is a basic value. It is not a means to some other end, such as wealth or position, although such results may occur.

Timothy J. Keller

#28. The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a reader. The advice in this and other stylebooks is not so much on how to write as on how to revise.

Steven Pinker

#29. Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.

Tom Cowan

#30. A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

Bill McKibben

#31. 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

Bruce R. McConkie

#32. When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.

Norman Vincent Peale

#33. You can't talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you've got to think positive.

Joel Osteen

#34. A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.

Peter Medawar

#35. It was beginning to occur to me that I was a little too in love with stereotypes and preconceptions.

Susan Juby

#36. I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

Veronica Webb

#37. Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women

Julie B. Beck

#38. If growth is to occur in any relationship, both - or all - of the people involved have to change

Judith V. Jordan

#39. It was one of those moments - which sometimes occur only at the interval of years - when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#40. City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

Gavin Newsom

#41. I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.

Peter Carey

#42. By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

Leonard Mlodinow

#43. No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.

Benjamin Disraeli

#44. No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration.. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

Abraham Lincoln

#45. There is always a spark before a drive. Don't expect any miracle to occur in your life if you won't avail yourself to be sparked by the Holy Spirit of God!

Israelmore Ayivor

#46. But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them.

Mary Ann D'Alto

#47. I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years, they have to stop. You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world.

Madonna Ciccone

#48. Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

Herman Kahn

#49. These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

Dav Pilkey

#50. In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

Gabe Newell

#51. Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

Sam Farr

#52. Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

J. D. Hayworth

#53. - fear comes only when you don't have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there's nothing new worth learning. I simply can't understand how any of that will occur today.

Trish Mercer

#54. We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

Dillon Burroughs

#55. AROUND FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND NONFAMILY CHILD ABDUCTIONS occur each year in America,

Joe Hill

#56. I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

Marie Lu

#57. Experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#58. We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

Albert Camus

#59. We are striving to change things, lass. But changes don't occur overnight." - Mr. Wellesley

Aya Ling

#60. Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.

Esther Hicks

#61. I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

Daniel Gillies

#62. Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution of life should be due to mere chance than that a particular order in a pack of cards should result from mechanical shuffling.

Leszek Kolakowski

#63. Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

Robert Barany

#64. Violence is the common origin of all regimes. Life, discussion, and political choice occur only against a background of violence.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#65. The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

Ian Strang

#66. Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.

Curt Weldon

#67. Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.

Marianne Williamson

#68. One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

Monica Crowley

#69. Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Aaron Burr

#70. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Marianne Williamson

#71. When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

Pattiann Rogers

#72. It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Pamela Dean

#73. The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Ruth Asawa

#74. I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

Helena Bonham Carter

#75. Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

George Bernard Shaw

#76. Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.

Natalie Valdes

#77. The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Ronald Reagan

#78. There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

Samuel Johnson

#79. Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

Chuck Palahniuk

#80. We're told perfection doesn't exist, but that couldn't be true. Maybe perfection couldn't last, but it certainly could occur. It had to, because as I stood there staring at this beautifully flawed girl and realized she was mine, no moment had ever felt so perfect.

Jeannine Allison

#81. Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

Benjamin Graham

#82. Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

Richard Dormer

#83. Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

#84. Changes occur because there's a gap between what is and what should be.

Craig McCaw

#85. We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

Mark Twight

#86. Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.

Neil Gaiman

#87. You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.

Harper Lee

#88. It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I'm a psychologist and they are not. I don't have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing.

Jonathan Franzen

#89. Leadership doesn't occur in a vacuum, it manifests in a context. These contexts are as dynamic as the personalities, stakes, culture and information available.

Michael M. Rose

#90. However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy.

Virgil Goode

#91. Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Dion Fortune

#92. It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

Albert Bandura

#93. Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.

Jorge Luis Borges

#94. We do not raise our children alone ... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

Richard Louv

#95. But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

Danny Wallace

#96. I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

Lauren Bacall

#97. Few see beyond the outward appearance
And recognize the true worth of a human soul.
When they do, miracles occur.

Thomas S. Monson

#98. Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Jane Seymour

#99. For example, you might have a sever sunburn as a child. Many decades later, you might develop skin cancer at that same site. This means it probably took that long for the other mutation to occur and finally tip the cell into a cancerous mode.

Michio Kaku

#100. When people are on the same page, when they agree wholeheartedly, when they see eye to eye, very little learning actually takes place. Insight and learning only occur when what we experience in the moment conflicts, clashes with, or expands our awareness beyond what we know or take for granted.

Jeffrey Russell