(548 quotes found)
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance”
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
Lee Simonson
“I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me”
Voltaire
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.”
Colin Powell
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
Archibald MacLeish
“The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur”
Legal Maxim
“It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.”
Christiane Amanpour
