#occur

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#any #every #every man #everywhere #had

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#came #changed #dreams #feature #feature films

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. ↗

— Marc Maron

#condition #east #get #israel #jerusalem

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#changes #correction #deficiencies #despite #encouraging

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#does #growth #marginal #margins #minority

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. ↗

— George Santayana

#beyond #disposition #him #kindly #man

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#better #better job #defense #department #existing

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#ever #isolated #language #occurrence #procedure