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To meet; to clash.
To go in order to meet; to make reply.
To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs.
To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.
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Occur Quotations
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
Marianne Williamson
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
William James
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
Thor Heyerdahl
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adler
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan Quayle
Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.
Julie Christie
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
Alfred Russel Wallace
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock
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.
Paul Harvey
Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine
It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
David Byrne
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld
Freedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich Schiller
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
Sergio Aragones
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
Sharon Stone
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
Gregory Bateson
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
Robert T. Bakker
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Occur Translations
occur in Afrikaans is gebeur, plaatsvind, geskie
occur in Danish is ske
occur in Dutch is gebeuren, aan de hand zijn
occur in Finnish is tapahtua
occur in German is eintreten, auftreten, vorfallen, auftreten
occur in Italian is accadere, succedere, esibirsi, entrare
occur in Latin is emergo, contingo, evello, incido, accido
occur in Portuguese is ocorra
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