Quotes About Occurrence

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

Chances are where you find them

Some doctors who specialize in the care of geriatric patients have told me that there are rare occasions when they have heard a very old, sick, and frail person announce, "I'm going to die today." And the individual did. But it doesn't happen often.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

Pop-up error alerts are the tool of the lazy. If an error does occur, the microinteraction should do everything in its power to fix it first

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

The same thing that's happened

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

Does the occurrence of one impossible thing increase the likelihood of a second.

Cadence causes events to happen at regular time intervals. Synchronization causes multiple events to happen at the same time.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

How can anyone ever predict the future?... It's mind boggling. The only explanation that makes sense is that the events have already occurred in one way or another.

The only reason for something to happen in a novel is that it's the perfect thing to have happen at that time.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

Sometimes it's not important why something happens, just that it happens, and that is important.

Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time.

Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occurring without taking out the magic spark plug, the genius of invention that ignited the adventure in the first place.

By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?

Above all, a game is an opportunity, an easy- to-understand instrument by which context is defamiliarized just enough to allow what Huizinga famously refers to as his "a magic circle" of play to occur.