We plan for all contingencies, and we'll be ready for it…

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we…

— Jerry Bridges

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

— B. F. Skinner

“I can conceive that after what occurred in New York it might be distressing for you to encounter Miss Stoker, sir. But I fancy…

— P.G. Wodehouse

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every…

— John Stuart Mill

“...make a distinction between positive contingencies, and negative. Learn to distinguish between those human undertakings in which a lack of predictability has been extremely…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If life were free of contingencies, then we could live by a few rules written in stone that would apply to all our decisions.…

— Jay Heinrichs

“But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do…

— Richard Ford

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in…

— Albert Bandura

“assessing risk factors and allowing for contingencies. But how often do they?”

— Robin Odell

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression…

— Marcus Aurelius

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

— Walt Whitman

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a…

— Bernard Arnault

“To protect your interests in your transactions when making an offer you’ll often use at least one—and maybe several—contingencies.”

— Anonymous

And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer,…

— Umberto Guidoni

I think any time you construct, you know, plan an operation, you have to account for civilians that are part of that landscape.

— Lloyd Austin