| "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." »Dan Quayle |
| "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 |
| "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." »Muriel Spark |
| "The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it." »David Searles |
| "The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other." »Henry Kissinger |
| "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." »P. D. James |
| "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." »Vince Lombardi |
| "It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur." »George Whitehead |
| "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 |
| "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right." »Eugene V. Debs |
| "One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full." »Muriel Spark |
| "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 |
| "When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president" »Henry Kissinger |
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