Quotes About Occurrence

If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its chance occurrences and paradoxes.

How many events added up to a coincidence? How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. —Aristotle, Poetics, XXV

Synchronicity? Or bullshit?

A coincidence is just a couple of things happening simultaneously.

paprastai nieko rimta ne?vyksta, bet kartais šis tas ir ?vyksta, ir niekada neb?ni tinkamai tam pasireng?s.

It's a story about the stuff that happens just exactly when you weren't expecting it; just on that night you thought nothing was going to happen, everything happens.

would come along at least once

No year is without one Friday the 13th, and no year has more than three.

6 of 14 years have one Friday the 13th. 6 of 14 years have two Friday the 13th. 2 of 14 years have three Friday the 13th.

Fear is a false prophet and believes that what it fears is actually coming to pass. At night every trifling occurrence seems more terrible to the besieged, for on account of the darkness no man tells what he sees but always what he hears.

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.

Bion (1961), Turquet (1975) and Anzieu (1984) have described the regression that occurs when group processes take over. Impressive

And you know what Ren says about coincidence." "Usually, coincidences aren't

the big thing no one was expecting to happen, that no one had ever imagined could happen, was happening in all the unexpected and unimaginable ways that big things tend to happen.

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

so that the almost universal occurrence of this symptom in chronic catarrh may be expected.

One thing Pete had learned over the years as a participant in so many disparate cultures, and as a family historian, is that almost nothing that can be imagined is impossible, and that, in fact, most of those things, in one form or another, have occurred. Scary really.