Occurrence Quotes

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

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.