We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see. . . all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.
The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study
All human advances occur in the outlaw area.
Progress does not occur without change.
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!
There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.
Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?
Commitment to each other is critical. Let's make our deadlines and due dates mean something. For changes to occur, we have to embrace them over and over. Take it step by step -- but keep moving forward -- and a year from now, we'll find we've moved from here to there.
Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first
Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.
Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.