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Quotes About Occurrence

Half the thinking process, as pointed out, depends on the occurrence of suggestions. The occurrence of suggestions depends on how ideas are associated in a man's mind.This depends to some extent on the education and the whole past life and environment of the individual
~ Henry Hazlitt
It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.
~ Henry James
A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
~ Ira Glass
He met with an incident." "You mean an accident." "Oh no, my Lord. There was nothing accidental about it.
~ Steven Brust
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
~ Samuel Richardson
Todo puede ser fácil por algunos medios, e inaccesible por otros. La ocasión y la oportunidad tienen sus privilegios, y ofrecen a menudo al pueblo aquello que rehúsan a sus reyes, La curiosidad, a menudo, se pone trabas a sí misma como también lo hacen la grandeza y la potencia.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life.
~ Milan Kundera
Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
Só o acaso pode nos parecer uma mensagem. Aquilo que acontece por necessidade, aquilo que é esperado e se repete cotidianamente é coisa muda apenas.
~ Milan Kundera
But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? Chance and chance alone has a message for us. everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.
~ Milan Kundera
Lo que sólo ocurre una vez, es como si no ocurriera nunca
~ Milan Kundera
Un acontecimiento no es tanto más significativo y privilegiado cuantas más casualidades sean necesarias para producirlo?
~ Milan Kundera
Siempre existe la posibilidad de que ocurra algo aterrador, y normalmente ocurre.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Elle m'appelle encore ton ex-père? -Ça lui arrive , répondit Fry. D'autres fois c'est juste ton vaurien de narcotrafiquants de père.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Each time it happens we're tempted to infer the direct intervention of a Maker.
~ Carl Sagan
Chances are where you find them
~ Terry Pratchett
I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should
~ Terry Pratchett
We don't get into mischief," said Mary indignantly. "It sort of happens to us, or around us, or in our general vicinity.
~ Theodora Goss
If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.
~ Karl Rahner
Today like every day roughly 5,000 people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.
~ Gaiman Neil
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action
~ Ian Fleming
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion.
~ Seth Shostak