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«Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.»
«He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
all at once, cowards, leap, leap out, noticed, occur, packs, run-in, singly
«Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.»
Author: Saul Alinsky
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
abrasive, abstract, abstracted, abstracting, conflict, friction, frictionless, movement, nonexistent, occur, vacuum
«I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
adjusted, adjusting, adjusts, car, childbearing, drive, generation, hard drive, menopause, occur, sixteen, teaching, timetable, week, year
«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.»
«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.»
«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conveniences, fortune, good fortune, occur, pieces, pleasures, seldom, small fortune, to a man
«Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Accidents
| Keywords:
accidents, families, occur, regulated, regulates, regulating
«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.»
«By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
beyond question, by nature, disposition, kindly, occur
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