Quotes About Occurrences

The proper concern of natural science is not what God could do if he wished, but what he has done; that is, what happens in the world "according to the inherent causes of nature".'30 Aristotle had said that 'to know . . . is to understand the causes of things'.31 We see here, in Albertus, the first

One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,One's tootings at the weddings of the soulOccur as they occur.

Looking another human being in the eye, making an independent decision to kill him, and watching as he dies due to your action combine to form one of the most basic, important, primal, and potentially traumatic occurrences of war.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

History is just one fucking thing after another.

Events are not a matter of chance.

As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase 'And it came to pass', the Book of Mormon would be reduced to a pamphlet.

I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

Sometimes, there are things is life, and they happen.

Heredity and environment interact constantly, Hilda wrote. We seek out occurrences and activities which stimulate our genes and make them flourish, and we avoid things which frighten us or make us uncomfortable.

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences does not rest with Providence.

God has a timetable when seemingly miraculous happens.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

History's just one darn thing after another.

History is everything that has ever happened.

Maybe it's the other way around," Jason suggested. "Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most.

No nos equivoquemos: estos brotes de enfermedad que se suceden uno tras otro están relacionados entre sí. Y no solo nos ocurren; constituyen las consecuencias imprevistas de todo aquello que hacemos.

One patriarch suggested that the things mentioned in most blessings are not the mundane or typical life occurrences but, instead, "the outstanding things which might happen."[1]

Every week, it's always something memorable.

It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we're worried about something else happening.

Things happen all the time, things happen every minute that have nothing to do with us.

The man's face grew unrecognizable, shapeless, and still Jackson beat him. I wasn't witnessing a fight, or a rescue. I was beholding punishment. A sentence... I realized he was seeing a maze of present and future, a web of occurrences visible only to him. As if he were fate itself. . . .

Area X, before the ill-defined Event that locked it behind the border thirty years ago and made it subject to so many inexplicable occurrences, had been part of a wilderness that lay adjacent to a military base.