Quotes About Occurrence

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Logically, such a nonoccurrence is just as much an event as an occurrence, but phenomenologically it is not.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

for what could be said to occur unobserved?

This is the foundation of the distinction between the scientia necessaria and the scientia libera. God knows Himself by the necessity of his nature; but as everything out of Himself depends for its existence or occurrence upon his will, his knowledge of each thing as an actual occurrence is suspended on his will, and in that sense is free. Creation not being necessary, it depended on the will of God whether the universe as an object of knowledge should exist or not.

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

A life is about twenty-five thousand days, and a finding occurs about once every twenty-five thousand days. In other news, once in a lifetime.

When I am king, annual birthdays will be banned and we will instead celebrate birthdays once every five years. With such large delays in birthday celebrations, maybe we can bring ourselves to actually care when someone has one.

Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is almost always upsetting and I'm sorry to have it appear in this story, but Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have such unfortunate lives that it was only a matter of time before dramatic irony would rear its ugly head.

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I've seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

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.

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

In many parts of Mindanao, brownouts are a frequent occurrence.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

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