Quotes About Occurrence

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

Margaret Peterson Haddix

You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

Local recruits made regular night trips past villages on the city's outskirts just to make guard dogs bark, which became such a nightly occurrence that few paid attention to it anymore—either that or the dogs would grow so accustomed they no longer stirred.

Fischhoff calls this phenomenon creeping determinism -- the sense that grows on us, in retrospect, that what has happened was actually inevitable -- and the chief effect of creeping determinism, he points out, is that it turns unexpected events into expected events. As he writes, The occurrence of an event increases its reconstructed probability and makes it less surprising than it would have been had the original probability been remembered.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

Once is an accident; twice is a coincidence; three times is a conspiracy.

La Historia nunca se repite… pero las situaciones históricas vuelven a ocurrir.»

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

I'm a Wilde...Madmen are two for a tuppence around here, and we are absurdly dramatic by nature. Miraculous saves and brushes with death were practically a daily occurrence when I was growing up. Lady Joan Wilde

Opportunity is a set of circumstances that is conducive for the occurrence of an event or for the performance of a task. It can also be defined as the amount of time or a situation in which something can be done. Opportunity is synonymous with chance. -Emeasoba George

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Poetic delirium has its place in nature. It justifies nature, consents to embellish it. The refusal belongs to clear consciousness, evaluating whatever occurs to it.

What happened to-day, a narrative

You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference.

Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.

It wasn't luck or the order of the universe. It was simply what had happened.

Accidents can happen at any time.

Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.