Occur Quotes

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

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.

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.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

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.

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'