Quotes About Occurrence

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

As part of our effort to explore whether the abduction phenomenon, as has been suggested, is primarily a Western occurrence, my colleague Dominique Callimanopulos and I have been exploring alien abductions in other countries and among American indigenous peoples.

Therefore, it is not surprising that, since abductions are themselves powerful and disturbing experiences, they may frequently give rise to true nightmares or dreams that recreate in modified form the abduction experience, even during the same night that the abduction experience occurred

I knew that nothing strangerhad ever happened.

I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen.

Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When you are feeling fabulous, for example, rare occurrence that it may be, you stop thinking altogether. Which gets you into all kinds of trouble. Hence, you are for the better off feeling awkward. Just the sound of it on your tongue. Like chewing on screws.

buried the lede. Any event that has occurred just five times since the first animal with a backbone appeared, some five hundred million years ago, must qualify as exceedingly rare. The notion that a sixth such event would be taking place right now, more or less in front of our eyes, struck me as, to use the technical term, mind-boggling.

Any event that has occurred just five times since the first animal with a backbone appeared, some five hundred million years ago, must qualify as exceedingly rare.

Hay cosas que ocurren solas, concluye. Tal vez porque alguna regla oculta determina que deben ocurrir. Y tres veces son demasiadas para considerarse al margen.

Five times every hundred years there is a February . . . without a [full] moon.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.

So little of what could happen does happen.

If this kept up much longer, I was going to happen to someone.

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

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