“Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency” — P. S. Martinez Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Evaluation must be done in hindsight, after the work has been done, not for proposals for work to be done. That said,… — Venkatesh Narayanamurti Copy Share Image
“The universe made no promises. It owes you nothing. It did not invite you to be born. It made no commitments that… — Tobias M. Kohl Copy Share Image
You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whereas some dwell on the bright side of life, enjoying an exciting spectrum of contingencies, and get all the breaks, others live… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the… — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried… — Hugh Massingberd Copy Share Image
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“In thinking the of the eternal, we must link the eternal with the accidentality of our thinking” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one.… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To protect your interests in your transactions when making an offer you’ll often use at least one—and maybe several—contingencies.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Like most visionary utopias, though. IDN (Integrated Data Network) was never to be. Perhaps it was simply too ambitious a project: infrastructures… — Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Copy Share Image
