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  • I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily. -- Alexander Chase
  • Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. -- Robert Smithson
  • The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. -- Katherine Dunn
  • Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. -- H. L. Mencken
  • The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. -- John White Geary
  • For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. -- Sidney Altman
  • Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities. -- Cat Stevens
  • Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. -- Carl Levin
  • Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. -- Ernst Mayr
  • 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
  • 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
  • When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. -- Alexei Navalny
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much. -- Mel Gibson
  • The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. -- Sergio Aragones
  • Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. -- George Boole
  • 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
  • My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. -- Daniel Ellsberg
  • The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for me. I typically enjoy things on my laptop. I'm in bed; I can be able to pause them. -- Shane Carruth
  • Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. -- Archibald MacLeish
  • Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it. -- Tina Brown
  • Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?' -- Tess Gerritsen
  • Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence. -- Plutarch
  • The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence. -- Niklas Luhmann
  • Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. -- H. L. Mencken
  • It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. -- Max Planck
  • An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence. -- Joyce Beatty
  • To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. -- Carl Jung
  • I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence. -- Janae Mitchell
  • Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night. -- Julie Garwood
  • The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy. -- Katsuki Sekida
  • Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. -- Isaac Watts
  • All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. -- Judith Martin
  • but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted. -- Giulio Natta
  • They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence. -- Heather Brewer
  • The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. -- James A. Baldwin
  • Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment. -- Zack W. Van
  • The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life. -- David Copperfield
  • The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them. -- Ivan Pavlov
  • You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine. -- Mike Krzyzewski
  • There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation. -- Samuel Johnson
  • (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. -- Alexander Fleming
  • The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after. -- Herman Melville
  • Ooo," said Alexia, fascinated, "it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence." The earl laughed. "You must show me these books of yours. -- Gail Carriger
  • In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding. -- Isaac Watts
  • If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy. -- Martin Schulz
  • We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me. -- Dolly Parton
  • Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers. -- William Strunk, Jr.
  • "¦Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird. -- Jasper Fforde
  • They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence. -- Norm MacDonald
  • But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself. -- John Dewey
  • I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning. -- Andrew Solomon
  • From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise. -- Stella Young
  • We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself. -- Galileo Galilei
  • For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish. -- Adora Svitak
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