Adora Svitak
Adora Svitak

For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

Alexander Chase
Alexander Chase

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Ant Middleton
Ant Middleton

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish

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.

Boyd Holbrook
Boyd Holbrook

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

Carl Levin
Carl Levin

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

Caster Semenya
Caster Semenya

Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.

Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.