Quotes About Occurrence

seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time

Exaggeration in every sense is as essential to newspaper writing as it is to the writing of plays: for the point is to make as much as possible of every occurrence. So that all newspaper writers are, for the sake of their trade, alarmists: this is their way of making themselves interesting.

The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

Its link with the transpersonal invests a mindless natural occurrence with the solemn significance of a ritual act.

in part because financial crises are (fortunately) rare enough that relevant data are scarce.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it.

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

Naturally, we think that finding another Earth-like planet is identifying a site that's at least friendly here for the evolution of life. The primary goal of the Kepler mission is to statistically assess the occurrence of these small terrestrial worlds.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

A ball--things happen at a ball. Cinderella happened at a ball. Jane might happen.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

The event of history is hidden in time.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

Time define the deeds of the moment.

This kind of thing kept occurring all week. Each time, the lawyer's irritation and disbelief mounted. In addition, I sensed something else growing in him, and intimate tendril creeping from one of this darker areas, nursed on the feeling that he had discovered something about me.

counterfactual thinking is usually triggered by the occurrence of something unpleasant, something that itself produces a negative emotion.

People are surprised to learn that if 23 people are in a room, the chances that two will share a birthday are better than even. With 57 in the room, the odds rise to 99 percent. Though it's unlikely that anyone in the room will share my birthday, we're not looking for matches with me, or with anyone else singled out a priori. We're counting matches post hoc, and there are 366 ways for a match to occur.

Improbable things happen a lot.

it is probable that improbable things will happen. Granted this, one might argue that what is improbable is probable.

In the British statistician R. A. Fisher's famous formulation, "the 'one chance in a million' will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

There is nothing remarkable about having media and foreign embassy contacts. When I lived in Saudi Arabia as a journalist, this was a regular occurrence.

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

Sometimes it can be that a player is available and you can get them next month - wow, that's a bolt of lightning - but it doesn't happen that often, it really does vary.

It is natural that such a thing as a dead man's scream should give horror, for it is obviously, not a pleasing or ordinary occurrence; but I was used to similar experiences, hence suffered on this occasion only because of a particular circumstance. And