Quotes of: Occurrences Keyword

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexander Chase

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

Karen DeCrow

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Robert Smithson

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Karl Marx

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

John White Geary

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

Robert Rainy

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

Sidney Altman

The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

Nature Of Occurrences

The art of statemanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Talleyrand

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

Kevin DeYoung

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Katherine Dunn

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

Janae Mitchell

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Prejudices: Third Series

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Samuel Richardson

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

Samuel R. Delany

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

Leymah Gbowee

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

Simon Travaglia

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

Robert Vaughn