Occurrence Vs Claims Quotes & Sayings

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. — Robert Rainy

There's a divinity that shapes beauty from our rough hewn lives. — Brent Weeks

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties. — Zadie Smith

I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us. — Les Miles

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday. — Tahar Rahim

It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements — Zach Braff

When the sunlight hit the trees, all the beauty and wonder come together. Soul unfolds its petals. Flowering and fruiting of plants starts. The birds song light up the spinal column and harmonize the hippocampal functioning. — Amit Ray

I am slowely realizing that Ginny's parents are from tjhe planet Wow, Really? The ants weigh in: I tjhink you meant the planet Fucking Asshole. — A.S. King

When are you going to tell me?" he asks without turning around. "Tell you what?" "Your secret. I know you have one. — S.J. Harper

What we had yesterday has gone away. What we have today will only last this day. What we will have twomorrow no one can take away. So treasure the moments given, appreciate what is offered. — Mark Millar

If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter. — Ruth Negga

The real genres: good and bad. — Franz Grillparzer

What the radical Enlightenment excluded as implausible based on the principle of analogy, much of today's world can accept on the same principle of analogy. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide claim to have experienced or witnessed what they believe are miracles. Eyewitness claims to dramatic recoveries appear in a wide variety of cultures, among Christians often successfully emulating models of healings found in the Gospels and Acts. Granted, such healings do not occur on every occasion and are fairly unpredictable in their occurrence; yet they seem to appear with special frequency in cultures and circles that welcome them. — Craig S. Keener

Claims for the
occurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated on
a case-by-case basis. There can be no general theory to cover
the character of unique events, but the refusal to contemplate
the possibility of revelatory disclosures of an unprecedented
kind would be an unacceptable limitation, imposed arbitrarily
on the horizons of religious thought. — John Polkinghorne

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. — George Bernard Shaw

How true it was that one needed to be seen by others to be sure of one's own existence. — A.S. Byatt

You, I said, who are their legislator, having selected the men, will now select the women and give them to them; - they must be as far as possible of like natures with them; and they must live in common houses and meet at common meals. None of them will have anything specially his or her own; they will be together, and will be brought up together, and will associate at gymnastic exercises. And so they will be drawn by a necessity of their natures to have intercourse with each other - necessity is not too strong a word, I think? Yes, — Plato