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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Charles Dickens

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

We think this change will have minimal impact on our fans. Sunset will occur one hour later this year due to the time change, which will give us just as much daylight as last year.

Joie Chitwood

Obviously, we're disappointed, but we're hopeful that a settlement will be reached and a strike will not occur.

Mark Weiss

We are still administering the program at this time. But we are in discussions with FEMA as to when and if a transition in administration will occur.

Carrie Martin

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur, ... The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

Jim Hooper

I guess that could occur. But that's not likely.

Jim Steiner

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

John Naisbitt

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Muriel Spark

It's a very risky business ascribing divine intent to natural disasters. Nobody but God really knows why these things occur.

Robert Knight

We need to make sure that this doesn't occur at other sites around the state.

Sandy Howard

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

We try to look at what events may occur that will involve Army forces.

Lynne Mccann

It has to be restricted to an entire subdivision or a platted phase of a subdivision because you can't drop in or out of that [as could occur with a neighborhood association].

Kevin Russell

If thousands of demonstrators are coming to Los Angeles and the police say simply that no one can demonstrate, ... that creates the dynamic where problems can occur.

Don White

We're looking not just at a coastal event, but a second (or) third event that will occur over the next few days. So it will be an enormous effort on our part.

Jack Colley

The internalization of order flow is essentially a kind of bulge-bracket dark book that allows order matching to occur at the NBBO.

Robert Shapiro

Basically, it sets up an avenue for those additional discussions to occur and to examine what the options are.

Allen Haynie

There needs to be a transfer of funds between the candidate and the political party. In this case that did not occur.

Stacie Temple

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

This is too much of a good thing, so there might be a correction that will occur.

Tobias Just

The big questions are how soon this turn will occur, and how far to the right Lili might go during the next few days. This has a critical bearing on south Florida.

Richard Pasch

I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it. To have this event occur in March and this (latest) event to occur in April is just shocking. . . . But more importantly, we're mad as hell.

Blair Sadler

Ethan is awesome. The guy is just automatic. He gives you all the confidence in the world to just know the ball is coming where it needs to be, and you can just get into the flow of the kick. You see what happens to some teams when mishaps occur, and, knock on wood, we don't have them around here.

Tom Tupa

One-and-a-half to two weeks above the normal summer maximum is all we need and widespread bleaching is going to occur.

Paul Marshall

Not forgetting is not enough. We must stand up and speak out when atrocities occur.

Mayor Michael Bonfanti

[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur during the year.

Amadeu Altafaj

There was no specific criteria, but [the administration] wanted to see a marked improvement, and I think that did occur from last year to this year.

Catey Mark

Broken noses do occur in the game, unfortunately. He kind of got a blow right in between the facemask and his helmet. We'll know more about that once we get an idea from the doctors.

Dennis Green

This single act, for which she has expressed genuine remorse, did not occur in the course of her duties or responsibilities as a journalist. As a result, this isn't an issue in which The Miami Herald needs to become involved.

Tom Fiedler

Unfortunately, sometimes you see big wealth transfers occur when something becomes scarce.

Severin Borenstein

Did it not occur to you [she] might be interested?

Graham Harris

I had no idea these things would occur.

Tom Allison

The feeling is, we're due for a major catastrophic event to occur here. We're doing this in order to preserve the promises we made to the large majority of our customers.

Krista Conte

I love football. I've always said that if I'm going to play, I'm going to play it full out. I'm not going to try not to get hurt, because that's when injuries occur.

Hines Ward

[But adding nifty features this late in the game might not be enough.] You're going to see consolidation occur really quickly, ... The weaker players will die on the vine.

John Chang

We are now starting to see that the costs of these diseases is huge. They not only occur in settings of poverty, but are poverty promoting as well.

Peter Hotez

The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are far less effective, even if theyre larger.

Aubrey Daniels

We do a thorough job of investigating incidents that occur, and we take that information and we put it into the hands of our 1,800 volunteer instructors. I attribute it to their hard work and dedication in getting that education into the classroom.

Rod Slings

These incidents did not occur on any church property and did not occur during any church-related activity. But, of course the church has no control over what happens in an individual's personal life.

Chris Richey

On your typical day at the museum, parking really isn't an issue. It's when they have an event that the problems occur.

Bill Foster

That's when the killings occur, is at night.

Jogayle Howard

Television is a cool medium, we learned more than 40 years ago, one that requires no effort on the part of the consumer. The Internet is a hot medium, one that is defined by the effort exerted by the consumer. The more effective learning is going to occur in the hot medium, not the cold one.

Frank Saia

There is a correlation between nurse staffing ratios and adverse events that occur in hospitals that are related to nursing care.

John Eisenberg

The major concern is obviously to be able to get notification well in advance... We cannot continue like this. It is impossible when the City of Cape Town is not able to clearly inform business when outages will occur.

Colin Boyes

The cycle of bird flu infection that will occur in poultry this winter will not be stopped.

Joseph Domenech

Is there something else that is going to occur in a time frame that makes sense that we would wait to fly for?

Richard Covey

The errors often occur in the transfer of information.

John Santell

I think of it as the earthquake in San Francisco. You know it's on the fault. You know it's going to occur, but you can't tell if it's going to occur this year or next year or the year after.

Dr. Roger Glass

Pharmacy is a caring business, and that caring cannot occur through a 1-800 number. Last I heard, the postman wasn't equipped to consult on pharmaceutical issues.

Mark Griffin

I'm satisfied the community got at least a glimpse of the restoration projects that have occurred and the one's that have yet to occur.

Tim Frahm

A cold or the flu starts out as a viral infection, but in some cases a secondary bacterial infection can occur.

Dr. Lyndon Mansfield

Never leave a candle unattended … keep it one foot away from combustibles and don't place it near windows or doorways where drafts can occur. Of course keep candles away from any sort of flammable liquids.

William Valentine

The conversation needs to occur right now. Given how important taro is, I think it's a moment at which everyone involved should sit down and come to a solution.

Gary Ostrander

If that doesn't occur, get ready for the lawsuits. And even it does, get ready.

Jonathan Vinson

I fear the distortions occur because it's been 38 years [since King's death]. It's been a long time since the real, living Dr. King came into this room.

Juan Williams

The biggest benefit is that we will now get a text read-out explaining any errors that may occur. Now all that happens is that a light goes on. We will also be able to look at (motor and drive performance) remotely.

Mark Blancas

We're looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent opportunity for it to happen.

David Atkinson

We are now learning that this abuse may have started to occur when she was 13 or 14 years-old and continued on multiple occasions each week for years.

Anthony Fusco

This will avoid many divided efforts and differences that may occur.

Her Highness Shaikha Sabeeka

The cameras are continually capturing data, but they're also continually dumping data if a violation does not occur.

Jay Heiler

We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.

Andrew Feinberg

We expect that to occur.

Timothy Adams

The present system makes it completely impractical for towns and cities to form their own power companies. The new legislation makes it much more favorable and fair for that to occur.

Jim Sweeney

All of the infectious diseases that occur when people are in large congregations of people can spread.

Michael Leavitt

This is exactly the train wreck that we knew would occur.

Deane Beebe

We don't want a format war to occur. The last thing we want to have is customers coming into the store confused about which format is which and what's compatible.

Amanda Tate

Health officials feel that a pandemic flu is likely to occur and no one's calling the avian flu the next pandemic, but we know that, sooner or later, something is going to happen. So, we need to be prepared.

Robert Guerrero

A series of storms of this magnitude obviously presents extraordinary challenges. Despite our best efforts, a small number of disputes will occur.

Susan Hood

They are pets or descendants of former pets. They don't occur naturally here.

Skip Snow

It's known that older adults are more easily distracted. We think we've found a mechanism in the brain to explain this and generated new insight into when in the lifespan these brain changes begin to occur.

Dr Cheryl Grady

The challenge in the year ahead will be managing any surpluses that occur.

Mike Sackett

This is the biggest planning challenge any of us is likely to have occur during our professional careers, ... It's all there.

Rob Nelson

I hope a miracle can occur as the military makes its courageous rescue efforts.

Annette Lu

We must recognize that there are limitations [to intelligence] and that misinterpretations can occur.

Hans Blix

The thought of leaving Horicon or Dodge County probably didn't occur to him until the state mentioned it.

Joseph Moore

A police force acting responsibly would never have allowed such a tragedy to occur.

Joe Stork

It's a rare case that'll occur.

Russ Anderson

After that we'll be committed to multiple more meters of sea level rise that will occur at rates of up to a meter?or three feet?per one hundred years.

Jonathan Overpeck

While flight delays certainly occur all year long, winter weather can increase their likelihood.

Rally Caparas

Perhaps [an act of molestation] did occur in some cases.

Frederick Crews

Legislators will debate the issue of how much the program should be funded. So we're waiting for the funding process to be completed and we just don't know when that will actually occur.

Kris Mayes

Geographically the expansion of it will occur over time as well.

Michael Simmons

This is really about making sure when errors occur, they're fixed and they're acknowledged.

Charles Inlander

We lose and gain about five officials in a year. Sometimes injuries occur, so the more the better.

Chad Laswell

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Vince Lombardi

A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.

Georges Benjamin

It was good for surfers, ... Unfortunately, undertows and rip currents were beginning to occur.

Barry Goldsmith

A flock of geese can cause the problem, but this seems to be recurring. It's not a common problem. We have had it occur at facilities before.

Arlene Murray

As more and more middle class African-Americans are moving to areas that are traditionally all-white, we're starting to see a lot of racial bias incidents like this occur.

Maryanne Lee

Everything was visible, and that's not usually the way they occur.

Larry Greer

I don't think we have a huge problem (in South Dakota), but I think it does occur a little more frequently than what we might be aware of.

Cody Wright

If that was to occur, that is going to cause major structural damage and could cause loss of life. It's my responsibility to make sure everyone is safe.

John Sparkman

I think it is very important that they look at the categories that allow direct instruction to occur. At this point it looks like the governor is excluding some opportunities for this.

Margaret Davis

I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that change can occur. I'll be around whenever they need me.

Jeremy Miller

That's backwards. What should occur is we should take the charges that we needed to take and then deal with the consequences.

Ben Glisan Jr

Given that contracts were issued as early as November 2000, the moratorium, if it did occur, was of a very short duration.

John Gomery

If you believe this pension-fund legislation will occur, and if you believe there is asset and liability mismatch, then I think you would have to say a 50-year bond could very well occur.

Brian Robinson

This was domestic violence, which can occur at any age.

Stephen Mccausland

It is something that was discussed today, but largely it's a question for the leadership as to when a final vote would occur.

Andrew Gray

Why wait for a security breach to occur when you have the opportunity, not to mention a legal obligation, to prevent it in the first place.

Timothy Muris

We are very much aware...We are pre pared. We are ready to take the challenge on board, should it occur.

Arne Ljungqvist

It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry major, and found work as an apprentice writer of Volkswagen ads.

Peter Carey

The fire is getting bigger but that does not mean that it is a bad thing, sometimes we expect that to occur, but one of the ways that we fight the fire is by actually lighting smaller fires between the containment line and the larger fire.

Julena Campbell

I think this is an example of how errors can occur in murder trials. Juries can receive information that is erroneous, factually wrong. Juries can make the wrong decision. I think this an excellent example of that.

Richard Auger

Everyone is going to be challenged. It's going to be a pretty good step, but not the biggest until you see more events around the world occur.

Aaron Brant

The expected recovery of the tourism industry in 2002 simply did not occur.

Juan Somavia

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Jim Mcdonnell

Rarely do major breakthroughs occur by individuals working alone. Even the greatest scientific accomplishments are the work of a community of scientists.

Richard Blackburn

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Dan Quayle

We saw flash crowds occur for CNN.

Brewster Kahle

Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Aaron Burr

I don't know a coach in high school who doesn't preach to put the ball in play. A lot of errors occur in high school baseball. You don't want them to, but they do.

Mike Hansen

Prevention is going to be cheaper and more effective than waiting for the pandemic to occur.

David Nabarro

It's just not correct to say that since it could have occurred in the past it therefore will occur in the future.

Tom Campbell

Defaults occur at least three times as readily -- in some instances, four times as readily -- on (such) loans.

Jonathan Gray

It will take an act of Congress to open the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain for drilling. Many Republicans agree no drilling should occur.

Bill Meadows

There is a strong sentiment it might occur. But the when and where is still out there.

Tony Curington

There are no secrets here. We're targeting the top 150 markets where Courtyard [by Marriott] and Hilton Garden Inn exist. In order for success to occur, we've got to get in front of the customer.

Chuck Tomb

A lot of good things seem to occur when he's out there on the ice. He's near the puck at all times and just makes things happen.

Randy Cunneyworth

What gets people mad is when these things occur behind closed doors, ... These are issues that need to be discussed in public.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

What that, in essence, says is that you're not going to worry about the biggest disasters that could occur, you're only going to worry about the smaller ones.

David Obey

An infection of humans, which theoretically cannot be ruled out, could probably only occur with very intimate contact to infected animals.

Thomas Mettenleiter

It's probably not an overstatement to say it's unprecedented for that kind of overruling of the career staff to occur.

David Becker

It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to the governor. They're also concerned about their next election -- and carrying the albatross of the previous administration.

David Adler

The problem is, ... we can't predict when it will occur. As one of my colleagues said, the influenza clock is ticking, but we don't know what time it is.

Nancy Cox

[Even the victims seem at a loss to explain how such brutality can occur in this day and age.] It's so archaic ... someone is walking around with that mind-set, ... I don't bother anybody.

Gregory Davis

These are things that simply happen in the game of baseball. If this were to occur on a frequent basis for Cuba, this would be rather worrisome. But this is not the case.

Higinio Velez

Events of this type will occur in the future, and we should be aware of what could happen.

Haraldur Sigurdsson

I don't think that you can set policy according to possible contingencies that may occur, but about which you have no information.

Allan H. Meltzer

The added financial pressure may hasten an already likely bankruptcy filing, which will probably occur within weeks.

Philip Baggaley

The area is currently being secured until crime scene processing can occur.

Shannon Blackamore

That didn't occur to me. I was still in my reporter's mode. I wanted to talk to her first.

Michael Bamberger

These episodes of racism occur in cycles.

Iris Chang

It's reasonable to expect we will have an influenza pandemic again at some point. As far as when that might occur, that really is impossible to predict.

Tracy Murphy

But I want to make it quite clear that Japan will not cancel its research, whatever dangerous activities or interference may occur.

Hideki Moronuki

The offer that we have now is almost identical to the offer that was associated with separation that will occur after the merger.

Joe Chandler

There are surprises that occur, and it would depend on how the case is presented before the court.

Bill Whalen

What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it go on for?

James Dempsey

And a little known fact is that a lot of toy injuries actually occur because the toys have been left out, so a parent or a child trips over them and falls.

Mary Giles

The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur.

Legal Maxim

We're hoping that will occur in the very near future -- sometime this year.

Bruce Bowers

The miner that survived thus far is younger than everyone else, and his body might be more resistant to that oxygen deprivation if it did occur.

Dr. David Katz

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes, and we don't know when that will occur.

Mark Dinger

It's unfortunate that this whole thing had to occur. I really hope this doesn't affect the school in a negative way.

Tim Reese

This will address those difficult questions for the public in the event that this should occur.

Lucy Caldwell

We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do.

Dr. Julie Gerberding

I think [Bush] probably broke the law here, but we need to know why they did it this way and what the legal justifications were, and then we need to determine what kind of accountability will occur if laws were broken.

Russ Feingold

Me-too deals will occur or at least be proposed but hopefully the market will prevail and tell managers such deals won't be executed.

Vasco Moreno

It really didn't occur to me that I was having the same thing happening.

Dyanne Bostain

It is the county that has created the situation. They permitted the sea walls and allowed all this to occur in a manner that has resulted in all this controversy. The county should foot the bill.

Gary Appelson

Issues like this occur from time to time at any airline, and at Northwest, we investigate any such operational issues.

Jennifer Bagdade

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adler

Blowouts occur on all manufactures of tires.

David Champion

It is the most detailed study yet describing the interplay of proteins that occur in cells during health and disease.

Akhilesh Pandey

If you look at the demographic breakdown where sales occur, they are much heavier along the east and west coasts.

James Ricci

We believe that the first prosecutions should occur in those jurisdictions that provide the best law, the best facts and the best range of available penalties.

John Ashcroft

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Neil Gaiman

We know that many of the deaths that occur after the operation are due to ischemic heart disease.

Scott Wright

Like any economy there are business cycles and these will occur in China like they do anywhere else. The key for us is going to be our position in large, low cost assets...that we can manage through those times. The fact is that growth continues in China .

Chip Goodyear

There is not a direct link between an increase in lymphoma itself, but we did have cases of lymphoma occur in our clinical trials, and we've been working with the FDA.

Michael Parks

We are asking the federal court to intervene because grave and irreparable harm will occur if a staged debate takes place as planned.

Russell Verney

Higher expected yields result in higher guarantees. Higher guarantees then increase chances of receiving insurance payments and increase the amount of payments when they occur.

Gary Schnitkey

The 49 corridor has been effective. Now growth will occur along the Route 15 corridor. Everyone knows that. This could be a great tool to take advantage of that.

Bob Blair

As we explain the benefits to the financial institutions, migration will occur.

Kerry Williams

That is, we would still not know better than one-chance-in-five whether the impact would really occur or not.

Alan Harris

The Holocaust bears lessons for us all, and we should all express concern when similar events occur.

Dawud Walid

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.

Giorgio De Chirico

There are certain contraindications that can occur from birth control medicine, like the possible increased cancer risks and heart disease. If you don't need to be on it, you probably shouldn't be on it.

Susan Margulis

As a result of Pennsylvania's large human and bear populations, bears and people are coming into contact frequently. These encounters occur because housing developments and businesses continue to encroach into bear habitat and more bears are living closer to people than ever before. Chance encounters in the field also appear to be more common than before in some areas.

Mark Ternent

For a Little League, that's devastating. It's not like we have that much money sitting around. So, for a loss like this to occur, to replenish it is going to take donations.

Jeff Parrill

Ordinarily, violations occur on a regular basis. On any inspection, you'll find some. This is not a very huge mine. As the numbers grow in volume, it's something management has to address.

Davitt Mcateer

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes and we don't know when that will occur. Certainly, I-80 could be closed for longer than two days.

Mark Dinger

We find it difficult to believe that all of these changes could occur more than once.

Dan Gebo

The subject never came up, ... Maybe I thought talking about it would jinx the campaign. We were so busy. We had just moved into a wonderful house. Moving to the mansion didn't occur to us.

Mary Kaye

It didn't even occur to us that it would be the first baby of the new year. This is kind of our new beginning.

Russ Lee

Terrorists only target those areas that can make an impact. Bomb blasts even occur in the green zone of Baghdad.

Rauf Siddiqui

The sap flow mechanism is driven almost entirely by the daily fluctuation in temperature. Any kind of change that does occur is going to impact the season.

Tim Perkins

You just don't expect this kind of thing to occur, ... This guy was apparently a one man crime spree. The good news is that we do believe the officers are going to recover and there's no one on the loose. The suspect is in custody.

Scott Ross

Of course we hope such a scenario won't occur, but we have to be psychologically prepared.

York Chow

It works as a deterrent. Any issue that may occur, if a student is in possession of drugs or alcohol, it is immediately addressed.

Dennis Williams

The condensate is still leaking and a blast could occur while welding work is going on.

Vladimir Ivanov

It's very possible that fish kills could occur.

Jennifer Wolny

A lot of times these things do occur and we do not know about them, so it's important to report them, especially if it presents a danger to motorists.

Jim Struzzi

What we're trying to do is clean up a lot of different ordinances on the books. We want to put a process in place for an equitable way for these (events) to occur.

John D'angelo

The two parties are committed to maintain the momentum and would conduct direct exchange of information to solve cases that may possible still occur.

Faye Belnis

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Mary Manin Morrissey

I provided an extensive declaration to the District Court as to the harm which would occur to our health care enterprises if BlackBerry service was eliminated.

John Halamka

Some of the Northeast's most memorable snows occur in late February and March.

Rob Miller

If an effect were to occur in 30 years, for many adults, that might not be that important. But a child of 5 years old -- in 30 years they will be 35, and that is something that would be of great concern.

Gina Solomon

It (ozone) doesn't occur every day, and it's very measurable. It's easy to get information about concentrations.

Jane Laping

We're explaining where cost-savings could occur.

Paul Stamm

What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

Marion Nestle

The Bull gives us tremendous coverage, particularly at night. Ninety percent of our broadcasts occur at night.

Bill Roth

Any of these projects stands a better chance of going forward in the next year with an earmark. If not, we have to go back next year. There's always a push back that could occur.

Mark Dennis

So, if an extreme climate change does occur in the future it could create widespread devastation.

Brian Cumming

The goal of Best Buddies is not to need Best Buddies at all. We shouldn't need to artificially create friendships -- they should occur naturally. We hope that we pretty much put ourselves out of business.

Nicole Varma

The trouble is the leveling off will occur at higher price points.

Janet Kister

Did you notice anything occur in your room as a result of those thumps on the wall?

Kato Kaelin