Quotes of: Occur Keyword

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Vernon A. Walters

I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and this fact has a curious effect on my argument. In a strange way it makes my argument an optimistic one. Although things a...

Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

The music of a popular song now came from the radio as Hawksmoor gazed out of the window; and he saw a door closing, a boy dropping a coin in the street, a woman turning her head, a man calling. For a moment he wondered why such things were occurring...

Hawksmoor

[after allowing the simulated Enterprise to be destroyed] Saavik: Permission to speak freely, sir? Kirk: Granted. Saavik: I do not believe this was a fair test of my command abilities. Kirk: And why not? Saavik: Because... there was no way to win. Ki...

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the mo...

William Hutchison Murray

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the momen...

William Hutchison Murray

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the mo...

William Hutchison Murray

disappointment is devastating, even if it’s something that you didn’t really expect to occur.

Dangled Carat

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

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.

Jessica Savitch

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

The Lost World

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.

The Secret Mandarin

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

Ron Ben-Israel

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

George Mercer Dawson

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

Jimmy Wales

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

Julie Christie

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

Rene Descartes

Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it’s always in the negative sense.

Rob Liano

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Janet Yellen

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

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero