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Quotes About Occurrence

On the other hand I won't conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once.
~ Halldor Laxness
He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.
~ Michael Kinsley
But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.
~ John Green
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
~ Sidney Altman
la casualidad existe y a veces conviene.
~ Silvina Ocampo
The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.
~ Simon Greenleaf
Group friendships are products of the right time—the chemistry of season, activity, emotion, and random occurrence.
~ Maureen Johnson
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has.
~ Max Brooks
How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds! For nothing short of pre-knowledge could have stopped the occurrence, so suddenly it sprang upon them.
~ Mervyn Peake
We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
~ Douglas Leone
We only had three, and the only reason that we had that many was due to a unique set of circumstances that had descended upon us like a dark cloud and could never occur again. At least that's what I told myself a few years before we ended up with six cats
~ Bob Tarte
Coincidence is the exception, not the rule.
~ Soheir Khashoggi
Magick has been famously described, as "the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with will
~ Sorita d'Este
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
~ William James
Truth happens to an idea
~ William James
At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.
~ Michael Ende
Roman history, Nathaniel. You need to read it. It is full of emperors who cannot tell even their children what catastrophe is about to occur, so they might defend themselves. Sometimes there is a necessity for silence.
~ Michael Ondaatje
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
~ Bill Bryson
As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
~ Bill Bryson
transits of Venus, as they are known, are an irregular occurrence. They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more
~ Bill Bryson
A este señor le lleva un rato comprender que los designios de la Providencia son inescrutables, y que en realidad el milagro ha ocurrido ahora.
~ Julio Cortazar
A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it
~ Francis Bacon
Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.
~ Franz Werfel
It is almost possible to sum up the whole process of thinking as the occurrence of suggestions for the solution of difficulties and the testing out of those suggestions. The suggestions or suppositions are tested by observation,memory, experiment.
~ Henry Hazlitt