Quotes About Occurrences

Something is always happening somewhere.

Coincidences don't get questioned. That's why they are coincidences. ~ Daniel Sempere in The Labyrinth of the Spirits

How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say.

How else do you think life happen? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Sería largo enumerar ahora todos los rincones del universo que conozco y los acontecimientos fabulosos que he vivido en ellos y, lo sé por experiencia, habría más de uno que lo encontraría una pedantería o una falsedad, de modo que preferiría no dar crédito a mis palabras antes que dejarse cautivar por ellas. Pobres almas insípidas que no merecen que nada extraordinario les ocurra.

Life happens at the level of events, not words.

We should quit using phrases like 'turning points' and 'tipping points.' There's been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.

Look at the implication for the Black Swan. Extremistan can produce Black Swans, and does, since a few occurrences have had huge influences on history. This is the main idea of this book.

Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas.

Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but there appears to be a growing number of these incidents

The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events.

But on the moon, the duration of the "extended present" is a few seconds, and on Mars it is a quarter of an hour. This means we can say that on Mars there are events that in this precise moment have already happened, events that are yet to happen, but also a quarter-of-an-hour of events during which things occur that are neither in our past nor in our future.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

Sve pri?e koje su se dogodile nalik su jedna na drugu, svaka pri?a koja se nije dogodila, nije se dogodila na svoj na?in.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

don't count things, but instead count the ways things can happen.

There is a terrible similarity between the principles of Fascism and those of contemporary physics. Fascism has rejected the concept of a separate individuality, the concept of 'a man', and operates only with vast aggregates. Contemporary physics speaks of the greater or lesser probability of occurrences within this or that aggregate of individual particles. And are not the terrible mechanics of Fascism founded on the principle of quantum politics, of political probability?

Los grandes acontecimientos tienen consecuencias incalculables

Oh, I cannot understand these points — absolutely I cannot. And the strangest, most unintelligible fact of all is that authors actually can select such occurrences for their subject! I confess this too to pass my comprehension, to -But no; I will say just that I do not understand it. In the first place, a course of the sort never benefits the country. And in the second place — in the second place, a course of the sort never benefits anything at all. I cannot divine the use of it.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

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

Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.