Occurred

Famous quotes containing the word occurred:

    I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?—or, prior to that, answer me this, “Are you victimizable?”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)