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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. -- W. H. Murray
My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa. -- Buffalo Bill
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. -- Bob Ehrlich
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple. -- Moon Unit Zappa
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. -- Alan Moore
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. -- Thomas Frank
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- David Suzuki
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. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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. -- Rick Yune
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. -- Michael Behe
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. -- Jim Cramer
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. -- Omar Bongo
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. -- Albert Claude
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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. -- Lynda Resnick
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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. -- Paula Poundstone
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. -- Nat Turner
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. -- David Morrell
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. -- James Nesbitt
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. -- George Lucas
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. -- Stephen King
That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt. -- Elie Wiesel
It never occurred to me to say no. -- Sylvia Plath
I am the place in which something has occurred. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. -- Mason Cooley
It never occurred to me to be an actor. -- John Malkovich
It never really occurred to me to believe in God. -- David Attenborough
Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred -- Honore de Balzac
Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God? -- Adrian Rogers
Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it, -- Karl Rove
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star. -- Kitty Carlisle
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. -- Neil Sheehan
Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. -- David Dixon
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. -- James Hansen
Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes? -- Adyashanti
When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. -- Elie Wiesel
Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence? -- Howard G. Hendricks
I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know. -- Elie Wiesel
It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it. -- Christopher Rice
Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? -- Anthony de Mello
It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. -- Isabel Wilkerson
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. -- George Eliot
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. -- Patricia Highsmith
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. -- Serge Lang
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. -- Don DeLillo
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. -- Lee Simonson
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. -- E. C. Bentley
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time. -- William Shatner
Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred. -- Jim Leach
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press. -- Amartya Sen
has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love? -- Siobhan Dowd
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me. -- Lady Starlight
The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership. -- David Novak
In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden. -- Hakim Bey
I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked. -- David Gross
It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more. -- Helen Fielding
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. -- John Berger
I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. -- Dorothy Hamill
And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred. -- Winston Churchill
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. -- Gore Vidal
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods. -- Irwin Redlener
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies. -- Sheldon Richman
And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. -- Lisa Kleypas
We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process. -- John C. Maxwell
I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred. -- Steven Hatfill
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio. -- Gene Tierney
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. -- Danielle Steel
It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors. -- Richard Leakey
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else. -- George Cukor
The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you. -- Anna Quindlen
It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!! -- Sam Kinison
At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them. -- Philip Zimbardo
With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet. -- Tony Robbins
Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred. -- Roberto Giobbi
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. -- Marvin Bell
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. -- Colleen McCullough
I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. -- Algernon Blackwood
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. -- Sam Neill
Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma. -- Jennifer Sky
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event. -- John Turturro
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. -- Joseph Conrad
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. -- Roland Barthes
I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event -- John Turturro
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. -- Blaise Pascal
I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election. -- Vivek Shraya
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Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity. -- Willie Jolley
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. -- Sam Abell
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred. -- Franz Grillparzer
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. -- J. G. Ballard
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things. -- John Green
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things." -- John Green
It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. -- Miranda July
I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis. -- Jane Roberts
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I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day. -- Pattie Boyd
It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak. -- Michelle Magorian
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. -- Carlisle Floyd
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time. -- Susan Rice
It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background. -- Brent Spiner
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. -- Joseph Campbell

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