(548 quotes found)
“Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony”
Franz Kafka
“I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.”
Larry Bird
“It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.”
Rachel Carson
“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”
Oscar Wilde
“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”
Muriel Spark
“One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.”
Ayatollah Khomeini
“Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.”
Albert Einstein
“How many things have to happen to you, before something occurs to you?”
Robert Frost
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
Al Gore
“A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such "breaks" are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.”
Lawrence Downs
