#occur

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #anyone #anywhere #captive #hostile

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

#even #expect #look #miracles #new

It is always the unreadable that occurs. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#occurs #unreadable

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#agenda #build-up #coming #companies #eventually

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there. ↗

— Zach Braff

#ever #great #i #into #little

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#back #build #collection #feel #finished

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#claimed #drastic #drastic change #i #isolated

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#classified #even #found #genus #had

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#any #drastic #evidence #evolutionary #find

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#berlin #boxes #circle #event #eyes