I do know that there are some things, though, that occur…

“We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”

— Maggie O'Farrell

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country,…

— Peter Handke

“Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.”

— T.H. White

We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though…

— Albert Einstein

“Like all great divorces, whether they be marital or epistemological, it had its antecedents in history.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“If we are going to revisit the past, let us go there only to learn from our past mistakes, and not to make it…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

— Dillon Burroughs

“You have to wait for good things to happen—wait and wait and work so hard—but bad things occur out of the blue, like fire…

— Gennifer Choldenko

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

— Terence

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

— John Wooden

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

— Alan Bennett

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

— Ida Tarbell

Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting.…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe