Top 162 Occurrence Quotes & Sayings

You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.

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

In many parts of Mindanao, brownouts are a frequent occurrence.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

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.

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.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

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

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

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

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

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

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 occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

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.

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.

I've always embraced battles that are a daily occurrence.

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

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.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

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

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Infidelity is a fairly common occurrence in society but very often not spoken about.

There is nothing remarkable about having media and foreign embassy contacts. When I lived in Saudi Arabia as a journalist, this was a regular occurrence.

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

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

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.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

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.

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.

If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted.

Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature.

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.

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.

The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.

It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

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.

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

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

Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on.

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

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.

Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.

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

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

The most bizarre occurrence has to be when I dislocated my wrist during a show in Germany in 1997.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.