Occur Quotations

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

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.

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

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

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than good. Unintended consequences from regulating or legislating to achieve a goal can occur and cause havoc in the markets or an economy.

I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

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.

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

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

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

Physicians need to be good technicians and know how to prescribe, but for healing to occur they also need to incorporate philosophy and spirituality into their treatment. We need to feel as well as think.

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion.

It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'

We believe that there's a great deal of fantastic innovation that will occur above the embedded layer and below the system management layer. There's a lot of really interesting enterprise-class operating system work we believe will be appealing to OEM customers even though they may be the shipping open-source bits as a foundation layer.

We believe that the first prosecutions should occur in those jurisdictions that provide the best law, the best facts and the best range of available penalties,

We believe that major consolidation cannot occur until some of the weaker trusts are exposed, and that this will only happen during a period of downward trending commodity prices.

We're slowing the process down. A large-scale disaster will occur and there will be another hue and cry about why we were not able to get the aid faster.

What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

We find it difficult to believe that all of these changes could occur more than once.

What's remarkable here is this process of planet formation, which we associate with the birth of stars, seems to also be able to occur at the end of the stellar lifetime, sort of a renaissance of the system, in some sense.

We're going to have to look closely at how we better address what happened on 9-11 and to be better prepared in the event, heaven forbid, something like this were to occur again,

WorldCom could occur in any era, it's more traditional book cooking. It's hard to think of another one of these cases really is like Enron in the sense that it raises fundamental questions of accounting and financial reporting.

We're getting reasonably close to where a bottom might occur. It's almost possible to sense a rally might occur this week.

We're hoping that some kind of limited liability agreement can be worked out with the government that limits the liability for Good Samaritans who take in these evacuees. We don't anticipate that there would be a lot of lawsuits out of that, based on the fact that people are voluntarily helping out, but that doesn't mean that still won't occur in some rare instances.

Through land cover changes over the last 300 years, we may have already altered the climate more than would occur associated with the ... effect of a doubling of carbon dioxide,

We know we must provide continuous service for our community, and that we have let our community down, ... We will not rest until we make sure that this problem will not occur again and that we make things right for our users.

We know from many other examples that there are lots of security breaches that occur across the country. There's no reason to think this will be any different.

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.

Verbal slip-ups often occur because we say things without knowledge of the subtle implications they carry. Understanding these implications requires social awareness - the ability to pick up on the emotions and experiences of other people.

We're looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent opportunity for it to happen,

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

We're looking not just at a coastal event, but a second (or) third event that will occur over the next few days. So it will be an enormous effort on our part.

We need to make sure that this doesn't occur at other sites around the state.

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Like any economy there are business cycles and these will occur in China like they do anywhere else. The key for us is going to be our position in large, low cost assets...that we can manage through those times. The fact is that growth continues in China ,

Like all manufacturers of consumer products, Cooper has lawsuits filed against it for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, car accidents occur and there can be fatalities. We hardly believe plaintiff attorneys are in a position to judge the quality of our products or the quality of our manufacturing facilities.

Major dams occur above many communities in this state. Giving people information can help them tie into what they should do to help themselves.

Many of these species don't occur anywhere else. This is definitely a big deal.

Many of the countries highlighted in this report have absolutely abysmal records of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees. The United States government must do all it can to end the global culture of torture. But real change can only occur if the Bush Administration not only admits that its own policies perpetuate torture and ill treatment, but also cleans house and stops warehousing detainees in countries with shameful human rights records.

Many would argue (child labor) has to occur because families need to have their child bringing home that small amount of money. But the fact is that if those children were in school today they could contribute more to their families,

So, if an extreme climate change does occur in the future it could create widespread devastation.

Omega-3s occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

Significant attacks occur daily without any involvement from terrorists. Protecting networks against everyday attacks will help defend against inevitable attacks by terrorists or enemy states.

Significant attacks occur daily without any involvement from terrorists,

Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment.

Most organized sports-related injuries (about 62 percent) occur during practices rather than games.

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

No construction will occur until the Avenue G viaduct is done.

Of course our feelings matter. But emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. On the other hand, your emotions can affect your decisions whether you like it or not because the effects can occur on the unconscious level.

No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitude occur in our system. Unfortunately, the reality is that they do.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

New pandemic outbreaks will occur in the future. What we don't know is when or its severity or how soon it might occur,

No certain action is bound to occur on any certain date. The company believes there is no absolute deadline in place at this time.

Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action

Right now, I would think this is a pretty strong signal that executions in Florida may not occur until the Hill case is decided. However, there are no guarantees.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Pharmacy is a caring business, and that caring cannot occur through a 1-800 number. Last I heard, the postman wasn't equipped to consult on pharmaceutical issues.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argument. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their own position that it doesn't dawn on them that a reasonable person might have a different viewpoint.

Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eagerly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale ''crush me and eat me!'' -- for us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, tea-plant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.

One of the major implications is that it shows us how these two processes, both preference for elaborate mates and preference for genetically complementary mates, can both occur in a population. It highlights the importance of taking into account the environment in which the animals are behaving.

I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

I got the licensing rights because I figured they wouldn't promote the film and if I got posters and T-shirts and things out there with the name of the film on them it would help promote the movie. So, you know, the whole idea that licensing was a revenue stream didn't really occur to anybody, including me.

I don't know a coach in high school who doesn't preach to put the ball in play. A lot of errors occur in high school baseball. You don't want them to, but they do.

I don't have confidence that will occur because of the economic status of the state.