Quotes About Occurred

We have been taught that forgiveness is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers. It is also taught that forgiveness means to overlook, to act as though a thing had not occurred. This is not true either.

The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.

Chan shook his head. 'Impossible in Rear Bay at Boston,' he said, 'but here at moonly crossroads of Pacific, not so much so. Twenty-five years of my life are consumed in Hawaii, and I have many times been witness when the impossible roused itself and occurred.

Then an astonishing thing occurred. In the early afternoon, the wind shifted

Reports of miracles are like positive test results for very unusual diseases. They must be treated with extreme caution, because however remote the possibility of error or deceit may seem, it may still be less remote than the possibility that a miracle has occurred.

The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had Holmes been present, he would have probably have solved the entire mystery by now.

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

48 Belief in progress doesn't mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief.

And it really was kind of the moon to shine on me, too, and out of modesty I was about to place myself under the arch of the tower bridge when it occurred to me that the moon, of course, shone on everything. So I happily spread out my arms in order fully to enjoy the moon.

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

her eyes looked as bruised as if their life together had already occurred

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

Maybe Anne felt men did not really make sense, a suspicion that has occurred to women before and since.

Reviewing the 6 meltdowns that had occurred in the 54 trials that had been conducted to date, that source estimated the risk to be one in a hundred million.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. His school studies had not much modified that opinion...

While this initial finding isn't a shocker, the news wasn't that the activity occurred, but rather exactly where the activity occurred. It took place in the nucleus accumbens, a deep and primal area linked to intense physical reward

Though a little inevitable commingling occurred for the purposes of procreation, recreational sex was generally outsourced.

That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them; and since the embodiment came before the recognition of the truth, it seemed a discovery that belonged to them alone.