Quotes About Occurrences

I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember

It is the premise of science fiction that anything shown shall in principle be interpretable empirically and rationally. In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendences, no devils or demons—and the pattern of occurrences must be verisimilar.

Because Christ was of Ruth's posterity. The Holy Ghost thought fit to take particular notice of that marriage of Boaz with Ruth, whence sprang the Saviour of the world. We may often observe it, that the Holy Spirit who indited the Scriptures, often takes notice of little things, minute occurrences, that do but remotely relate to Jesus Christ. Secondly

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.

Los acontecimientos que influyen decisivamente en nuestros destinos a menudo tienen su origen en sucesos triviales

events that occur at random will seem to come in clusters, because it would take a nonrandom process to space them out.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Fundamental and flagrant contradictions rarely occur in second-rate writers; in the work of the great authors, they lead into the very center of their work.

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.

Once means happenstance, twice means coincidence, three times means enemy action.

Four such areas of opportunity exist within a company or industry: unexpected occurrences, incongruities, process needs, and industry and market changes.

Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the celebration. This is true of Christmas, when too often we celebrate the holiday rather than the deep significance of the birth and resurrection of the Lord. They must be unhappy indeed who ignore the godship of Christ, the sonship of the Master.

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

But as with all such occurrences—those destined to be recounted not only in the immediate aftermath but for many years to come—time seemed compressed; it is a common error of memory to impose upon such events the coherence of a concentrated narrative, beginning with the assignment of a specific interval of time. That season. That year.

Isolated incidents have lateral, lasting implications.

Unless we see God's activity in the midst of them, we will be unaware of their spiritual significance. They will simply be events in a long succession of confusing occurrences. A miracle could take place, and we would miss it. But if we are sensitive to God's voice, these same events can hold enormous significance for us. Hudson

English may be the fastest moving language in the world, but there are plenty of concepts, sensations and everyday occurrences which lack a pithy word to describe them. Take the clunkiness of 'the day before yesterday' and 'the day after tomorrow': German provides single words for both.

There is a tremendous irony in happiness. It comes from a root word meaning 'by chance' or 'an occurrence', which in a positive sense connotes a sense of newness, wonder, and appreciation of chance occurrences. The irony is that people not only seek it, they try to hold on to it—especially to avoid any sense of 'unhappiness'. Unfortunately, these very control efforts can become heavy, planned, closed, rigid and fixed.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

People spoke of ill luck. Mischance. They spoke of unruly spirits and vengeful gods. And some spoke of the most terrible truth of all – that the world and all life in it was nothing but a blind concatenation of random occurrences. Cause and effect did nothing but map out the absurdity of things, before which even the gods were helpless.