Quotes About Occurrence

Only that which happens is possible.

Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute," wrote Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. "Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup." By

Sometimes energy of this nature, chaos, ill luck, goes out in the world and begets and begets. Bad luck rarely stops with one occurrence. All Indians know that. To stop it quickly takes great effort

Incest," she would say. "It's always occurred, rich or poor. You can read about it in the Bible. Up until the 1980s, you kept it hidden in the family. Why do they do it? It's a form of control. It's not sexual. It's all about power.

What can be described can happen too: and what the law of causality is meant to exclude cannot even be described.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters.

And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters. Are you ready to go?

but time and chance happeneth to them all.

circumstance

The time trends and spatial features of cancer's occurrence around the globe clearly belie the notion that cancer is a random misfortune. Cancer associates with westernization. Whereas forty years ago, cancer was mostly a disease of wealthy nations, half of all cancers now occur in developing nations, particularly those rapidly industrializing.

It was just one of those things, I said, You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened!

The paradoxical conclusion is that it would be very unlikely for unlikely events not to occur.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

The reason is simply the extreme improbability of the preadaptations necessary for it to occur at all. Each of these evolutionary steps has been a full-blown adaptation in its own right.

Every day in the world is someone's Birthday and someone's Deathday.

The beauty of the story is that it happened. It was the last thing that happened in New York. Everything else happened while I was stopping it from happening.

Spellcraft is seen as a perfectly natural occurrence along the green path. Is brewing a cup of rosemary tea for a headache a spell? Or is it natural medicine? To the green witch, it doesn't really matter.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Great things happen only once.

It loved to happen.