Quotes About Occurrence

I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.

What do you think of Raven?" "I thought we had to be quiet." Shea was looking in every direction for bats. "The bats know we are here, Shea, but there is no need to fear them. I will keep them away from you." He spoke calmly as if it was an everyday occurrence to control the movements of bats.

Never did will of gods bring anything forth out of nothing." For, in good sooth, it is thus that fear restraineth all mortals, Since both in earth and sky they see that many things happen Whereof they cannot by any known law determine the causes; So their occurrence they ascribe to supernatural power.

That is the past. It has already occurred. Its only existence now is as a source of wisdom and motivation. Learn from your pain, your guilt toward your past actions. Let it guide your choices in the future.

The sign is not concerned with that smoke and that fire, but with the possibility of a relationship between antecedent and consequent regulating of any occurrence of the smoke (and of the fire). The sign is type, not occurrence.

Hip Hop is GOD's response to our suffering and this gospel celebrates that response and the personal character that caused such divine responses to occur.

If ordinary men never report the occurrence of these acts, for all that, according to the theory, they should be encountered vastly more frequently than headaches, or feelings of boredom; if ordinary vocabulary has no non-academic names for them; if we do not know how to settle simple questions about their frequency, duration or strength, then it is fair to conclude that their existence is not asserted on empirical grounds.

Then what happened next happened.

You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.

Todo lo que ha ocurrido es sólo una parábola. Lo que es inalcanzable se convierte en suceso. Lo que es indescriptible se ha realizado aquí. Lo eterno-femenino nos permite avanzar.

Every instant a million events occur one iota past the edge of your awareness.

No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and then, is not a teleological necessity; it is a circumstantial occurrence" (OH 104-5). Because history is what happened, not what must have happened, there is no room in an authentic historical explanation for teleological causes.

the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic, isolated, permanent thing but (as we have seen) an "identity" or "historical individual" constructed by the historian.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Christianity does not limit revelation to Christ, but through Christ sees God's revelation as occurring elsewhere and finally, echoing everywhere.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen

Somos y ya está, y lo que pasa, simplemente pasa.

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.

A veces tienes que esperar siglos a que ocurra alguna cosa y de golpe ocurren todas a la vez

Was sein soll, muß geschehen, und was sein sollte, das geschah.

Fear and wonder rendered him powerless. An occurrence like this, in a place assigned to devotion, was adapted to intimidate the stoutest heart.

February 29th: A birthday so awesome that the world can only handle it once every 4 years!

Of course, if you accept the materialist belief that memories can be created only if the brain is functioning, then that will be your conclusion. But that's exactly the point in question: whether mental functions like perception and memory can occur without the brain.