Quotes About Occurrence

Recuerdo vivamente su definición de magia: es "la ciencia y el arte de hacer que un cambio ocurra en conformidad con la voluntad".

Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people's physiology and seems to be a reaction to tremendous nerves, fatigue, or self-consciousness. It is rarely a welcome occurrence to the giggler and can feel like going over Niagara Falls without a barrel

Maybe it was too much of a coincidence to be a purely coincidence.

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Two facts related by time and place and not necessarily related by cause and effect.

The odd conjuncture of psychoanalysis with literature dramatizes the perplexing deconstructions and inversions that can occur as Theory, capital T, meets "primary" texts in classrooms.

if you watch trillions of things, you will often see one-in-a-million coincidences.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

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.

that the event would

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run than fact.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.' (John Cage)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

the club coincided.

I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying it happened.

It is hideous to contemplate such things occurring in a department under my control," he said. "But what can one expect with the material at one's command? The temporary civil servant is the bane of government in war-time.

Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

The second kind of grief was "complicated grief," which was also known in the literature as "pathological bereavement" and was said to occur in a variety of situations. One situation in which pathological bereavement could occur, I read repeatedly, was that in which the survivor and the deceased had been unusually dependent on one another.

confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred

For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.