#occurred

It never occurred to me that I needed to say that I was gay. I simply am. Anyone who knows me or who's been around me ten minutes knows it too. ↗

— Michael Jeter

#anyone #around #been #gay #i

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#countries #established #even #forces #frightening

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since. ↗

— Alice Paul

#been #continue #could #eat #ever

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#i #me #never #occurred #people

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more. ↗

— Brad Bird

#any #anyone #astonished #because #come

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since. ↗

— Mark Boal

#attacks #different #different ways #family #lost

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#anything #grew #i #me #never

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#another #another way #before #could #fact

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#disaster #economic #encourage #europe #felt

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. ↗

— John Fiske

#christ #event #inclined #led #most